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MUYA
03-18-04, 10:44 AM
http://www.nvnews.net/#1079627906

USD $733 a pop!
Smokey
03-18-04, 08:06 PM
I'll take 3 :D
Sazar
03-19-04, 12:09 AM
I want that pop...
Riptide
03-19-04, 09:04 AM
Forgive the ignorance... This still requires ECC memory right?
Dazz
03-19-04, 12:35 PM
Yeap.
Riptide
03-19-04, 12:55 PM
Damn. They're going to have to change that before they get my $$. I can't swallow parting with my Mushkin. :)
Dazz
03-19-04, 02:53 PM
Get Mushkin ECC ;)
Riptide
03-19-04, 03:39 PM
Originally posted by Dazz
Get Mushkin ECC ;)
I could, but I'd be sacrificing performance (at least as far as the memory goes) not to mention the fact I don't want to get stuck with a set of DIMMs that won't be usable on the next generation of motherboards. They are going away from this ECC requirement is that correct?
Sazar
03-19-04, 04:06 PM
socket 939's will be out soon rip :)

from my work on the 64bit processors so far.. there appear to be a few more things that are either not exposed yet (ie CnQ is not exposed on all mobos YET or the AV thinger they have which is supposed to be released @ sp2) but also a few other things which MAY be implemented but are not right now..

I still wanna see what amd does with the PNI... ie IF they can do anything with it...
Viral
03-19-04, 08:14 PM
Very impressive, FX's are worth buying again - top end performance for a price less than the 'slower' competing top-end CPU's
B&R
03-21-04, 03:19 AM
Still not better than intel at gaming thou.
Dazz
03-21-04, 03:39 AM
Where do you get that from? The Athlons are better at gaming while the Pentium4's are better at encoding.
B&R
03-21-04, 10:15 AM
Where do you get that from? The Athlons are better at gaming while the Pentium4's are better at encoding.


Sorry dint specify, i was talking abt in openGL;). I know it is more "brute" force depended but i thought 53 would be faster. Mehh.. anyways that doesn't mean im putting athlon down but i just expected THIS one to be faster at openGL, thats all.
Ninja Prime
03-21-04, 01:10 PM
Athlons have always been faster in games. (i.e. the stuff that matters ;) )

Are you talking about specpref benches?
Sazar
03-21-04, 01:37 PM
Sorry dint specify, i was talking abt in openGL;). I know it is more "brute" force depended but i thought 53 would be faster. Mehh.. anyways that doesn't mean im putting athlon down but i just expected THIS one to be faster at openGL, thats all.

afaik and have seen it still IS faster in games... incl ogl games than intel's solutions...
Viral
03-22-04, 04:20 AM
Sorry dint specify, i was talking abt in openGL;). I know it is more "brute" force depended but i thought 53 would be faster. Mehh.. anyways that doesn't mean im putting athlon down but i just expected THIS one to be faster at openGL, thats all.

It does very well in RTCW.. so obviously it's not an OpenGL specific thing at all.