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Jun 8^th, 2004 at 4:24am

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"....we can state that the Athlon64 is currently the most sensible choice in the high end desktop segment."

Tom's Hardware Guide

http://www6.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20031201/index.html

Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24" WS LCD

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Reply #1 - Jun 8^th, 2004 at 4:00pm

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December 2003? - Thats yonks ago! Aww well they got it right Roll Eyes

Even more so with the new socket change.

I'm just praying FS2006 will be in 32bit!

What do you think?

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Reply #2 - Jun 8^th, 2004 at 11:57pm

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I think it would be commercial suicide to build software for the mass market in exclusive 64bit, it won't happen, at least not for quite a while.

I'm not at all educated in software developement, but I can imagine that programming 64bit software to the point where it is actually using it's potential is going to very expensive.

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Reply #3 - Jun 9^th, 2004 at 3:44am

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Then by the time 64bit software is commonplace none of these current AMD64's will be powerful enough to run it - Games anyway.

The AMD's are better though, It was just far too new for me to go for seven months ago. What I didn't know about was the cool and quiet mechanism, I always thought AMD's ran hot and required tons of fans - But then so does my P4!..... I guess it’s just this hot weather! 30 degrees in England...... Tongue

I've been running the PC with the side off and a room fan blowing in since I became concerned with the temperatures - the weather has spurred me to order all the kit I need to mount some fans on the side like you suggested. I bought an Akasa fan controller and some fan grills off ebay, 3x YS-TECH 80mm Fan 3 pin fans from overclockers and a half price

but wrong colour (white Shocked

) window panel from dabs.

The only place I could get a silver one from charged more for delivery then for the panel Shocked

! Anyway I plan to have some fun with some spray paint! I had to get a spare panel as I don't trust myself not to wreck it - the case is acrylic Angry

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Reply #4 - Jun 9^th, 2004 at 5:28am

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I think AMD's did used to run quite hot. My old system which my g/friend now has runs hot I know that and its a 1333mhz thunderbird I think FSB266. The case gets nice an toasty by the cpu anyhow! Still it carries on working day after day though hehe.

My current AMD an XP2800+ @2198mhz FSB up from 333 to 350 runs nice an cool. I just reseated my coolmaster cpu fan using artic silver (This time the right amount) and my temps have dropped even more. I do have 5 case fans too though. My idle temp is 38-41 full load is 44-46 Grin

When my new ram arrives looks like I am gonna be able to clock the FSB a bit more hehehe.

AMD64 3500+ @ 2200MHz 400FSB&&MSI K8N Neo 2 mobo nForce3 chipset&&1gig Corsair XMS PC3200 timings @ 10.2.2.2 &&XFX 6800 Ultra @ 450/1200&&80gig HDD&&Loadsa fans!!!

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