New computer *gloat, gloat*

[Provost Harrison]

That's expensive for two prostitutes

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
"my penis is bigger than yours."

Your just jealous.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
If I want to run games, I'll get a toy comp for running games.

If I want to do professional work, I'll get the equipment for it.

Well bear in mind that PCs are a bit of a hobby for me, and I have been doing a lot of Access/Excel work lately...the muscle power is handy (of the CPU, not the card before anyone decides to be pedantic). And hence why I want a big monitor...

[reds4ever]

So what Apps are you running that need that spec? Boys 'n' Toys, I totallly empathize :O)

[MattH]

Oh yeah, that intensive Excel work

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by MattH
Oh yeah, that intensive Excel work

Thats what I thought! I least admit you payed a Grand to play 'puter games

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Asher
No, the price cuts on the P4s won't come until a week or so before the P5 launch on October 26th.

Who knows what's in store? Certainly not you.

Originally posted by Asher
They're going to hype "hey, it's 64-bits! Who cares if the OS to take advantage of 64-bits won't be out for another 6 months and the fact that 99.9999% of your code is 32-bit???"

Most people know that a 64-bit processor runs 32-bit applications faster than a 32-bit processor.

Originally posted by Asher
Not to mention the ever-growing lost of errata on AMD's webpage, at 100 and rising. Compare that to, say, Intel's Centrino, which has 4 errata and all were fixed before shipping silicon.

Centrino = AMD 64?

Originally posted by Asher
All of the sh*t I say about AMD's quality isn't bull****, it's only bull**** to those who don't want to hear it.

Not like it contains facts.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
you can wait forever more, you have to jump in at some point

The point being, this is a bad point to jump. A good point is right after price slashes forced by the introduction of some faster or next generation CPU by the competition.

[Spiffor]

What, only 160 Gigs ? Are you still living in the middle ages or what ? You can buy 200 Gigs HDs for more than Four months already... What a crappy oldy computer you have

[Urban Ranger]

If I were PH, I'd go for an Ultra320 SCSI RAID.

[mrmitchell]

Maximum PC's "Dream Machine 2003" had two 250GB Western Digital Caviar SEs (7200rpm) in a RAID setup and two 36GB Western Digital Raptors (10000rpm) in another one. Wuss.

[Urban Ranger]

Who wants ATA HDD's, or even SATA HDD's? Too dang slow!

[MichaeltheGreat]

Ultra320 SCSI or Fiber Channel is the way to go.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Who knows what's in store? Certainly not you.

I certainly would know more about it than you would.
1) Athlon 64 is entering very restricted production in 2003 (something along the lines of 300,000 CPUs TOTAL, before Dec 31st), before cranking it up with the 90nm Athlon 64s in 2004 to the millions. Hardly a threat to Intel.
2) Athlon 64's preliminary benchmarks put it on par with a 6-month old Pentium 4 in 32-bit speed.
3) Intel's pricing roadmap, publically available agrees with me.

So maybe I do know what's in store, huh? It not only makes sense logically and economically, it makes sense because Intel has had their pricing roadmaps public for that time period.

Most people know that a 64-bit processor runs 32-bit applications faster than a 32-bit processor.

BULL****.
64-bit code takes more memory, which takes more cache, which takes more memory, which takes more memory bandwidth. A 64-bit CPU is not necessarily faster than a 32-bit CPU, until you use the special features of a 64-bit CPU.

Even a novice computer science student would know that MHz != speed, and 64-bit is not always faster than 32-bit.

This right here shows your pathetic qualifications to talk about computer hardware.

Centrino = AMD 64?

Are you really this dumb?
I said compare it to the Centrino. Athlon 64 = modified Athlon = 100+ errata.
Centrino = new core and design = 4 errata, all eliminated before production.

I wonder why it is people think Intel to be more reliable?

[Thue]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat


Depends on what problems the 64's come out with, and how big the market is for 64 bit processors to be saddles with 32 bit peripheral devices running 32 bit apps on a 32 bit OS.



And it is, too, so there.

For linux-users I think it may be usefull in 64-bit mode (with the extra registers and stuff) somewhat sooner.