64 bit Athlons

[Craig Ramsay]

With the arival of the new 64 bit athlons does anyone know if you need to buy Win XP 64 bit edition?

 

Would be interesting to run lightscape one one of these new processors with 16 GB ram

 

Craig

[quizzy]

craig,

 

May i also invite you to re-write lightscape to take advantage of the 64 bits?? Cause autodesk sure isn't going to do that...

[Craig Ramsay]

LOL I know I was just thinking of the increased memory size that these processors can use. Sometime Lightscape used a huge amount of RAM

[Greg Hess]

Just wait till the compositing packages move to 64 bit.

 

I know alot of compositors ready to sell their family's off for 64 bit machines and software .

[Ernest Burden III]

Greg

 

Is this first AMD 64bit chip ready-to-rock? Or are we looking at a 'first model year' where you would be best suited to wait for the kinks to get worked out?

[garethace]

Gaming.

 

 

The medieval: total war benchmark where the Athlon XP 3200+ beat the Athlon 64 3200+ . In the Grand Prix game too, the XP 3200+ was neck and neck with the P4 EE. So it would appear to me, that the XP 3200+ is a savage investment. Even in Jedi Knight Academy the XP 3200+ is still up there.

 

Has anyone any idea why Ghost Recon needs a fast memory subsystem. I mean, that is probably one of the few games I am likely to play. So I am concerned about the XP 3200+ on that one. Okay, the XP 3200+ is badly beaten in the simulator, Comanche and AI games like Civilisation. Unreal Tournament players need not budget for P4 EE though.

 

Raytracing.

 

 

For rendering and CG the P4 EE is one serious performer! The way the Pentium 4 EE can half the time taken to render a complex scene in 3DS MAX 4.2, compared to the Athlon XP 3200+ is just embarrassing really. I mean, when you consider that a 2.4 GHZ P4 C edition can actually match the performance of the XP 3200+. The Cinebench results are enough to make me steer well clear of AMD for the near future – sorry guys!

 

Branch prediction.

 

 

I would imagine the chess benchmark DIEP is quite the benchmark for Torch concepts, a data mining contractor working for the Pentagon, health care and financial services. I mean a 2.4GHZ AMD 64 chip is twice fast as a 2.4GHZ Pentium 4 C edition.

 

The contractor, Torch Concepts, based in Huntsville, Ala., matched the JetBlue records against another database to determine the passengers' Social Security numbers, occupations and family size in an effort to identify potential terrorists.

 

He said that the Army had wanted Torch Concepts to carry out a data-mining project to determine how information analysis could be used to protect military bases from terrorist attacks.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/23/business/23PRIV.html?ex=1064894400&en=7276cef7f8f0e23c&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

 

Encryption

 

 

A complete home run for AMD!

 

So I am guessing the guys with the bulging brains in the labs are simply going to gobble up the AMD 64 workstations, for clusters and supercomputer self-builds. Gee, I cannot imagine the big OEMs ignoring AMD 64 as a product in fairness. Especially as I can already overclock very well and will certainly ramp up to 3GHZ pretty quickly! Unfortunately my work load, is best served by Pentium 4 EE, and that is what i will be recommending to all my buddies in the trade from now on.

[Greg Hess]

Ernest,

 

I'm holding final comments back till I get my test Opt 248 system.

[garethace]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3524845&thesection=business&thesubsection=technology&thesecondsubsection=information

 

More info

 

Have to reg here:

 

http://www.siliconstrategies.com/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=15200067&_requestid=343035

 

[ September 24, 2003, 07:39 AM: Message edited by: garethace ]