"The upcoming AMD San Diego and Venice core AMD64 processors - Athlon 64 FX and Athlon 64 respectively - will feature support for Intel's SSE3 extended intruction set. Even more important is planned optimizations for the memory controller to improve the performance of motherboard chipsets with...
Well, the FX series CPUs are slated to continue on the 130nm fabs.
Also, in a way, the current 90nm A64s are already marching towards EOL. The "Rev E" or Venice Athlon 64s will be shipping in early 05 supposedly. They'll have SSE3 instruction support, a more optimized memory controller.
Luthien,
Sorry for any confusion I may have caused you. I didn't have any question marks, let alone three in my statement about having to wait, but it's of no matter. It is often hard to convey inflection in the 2D world that is the printed word. We/the thread had already established that...
>Quote from Lucient:
"UUronl, what are you saying? "Plethora available but you have to wait a few weeks???" lol, I think you left out part of your thoughts on this"
No, actually I think it would have been more accurate for you to say that I had left out part of -your- thoughts. You have...
Well, two things:
One, there are a plethora of vendors on Pricewatch selling 3500+ 939s for $346. Retail as low as $359. So you might have to wait a few weeks.
Two, if you're going to spend ~$500, you should really be thinking about the 3700+. Kicks the crap out of the 3500+ 939 and the...
I tend to agree that higher clock and lower heat are reasonable expectations. Even with more defects, the greater number of chips per wafer should make up for initial problems if they run into them.
Remember too, within a year we should have Cooligy systems available - that's the company...
You could always use DV tapes (the camcorder variety). A standard 1hr DV tape holds 10GB uncompressed in normal mode and 15GB in LP mode. There is software that can be used to facilitate storage using camcorders that are connected via firewire. The tapes are readily available at less than $10...
You know what? I was confused by some retailers claiming that the 3400+ 1MB was a 2.4 chip. I looked again and realized that it's 2.2. Good grab. I forgot that they called the 2.4Ghz 1MB cache the 3700+.
The 3400+ 512KB chip is 2.4Ghz though. Weird.
Thanks,
Ron
I started pricing out a system using the above recommendations.
I'm prefacing what I'm about to say with the following. I know that part of the fun/point of overclocking is "seeing if you can do it", and experiencing the thrill of squeezing the most from a given setup. I realize this...
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