A new look at P4 vs Athlon

[jeffg007]

He is still trying to get his cd rom to work on his t-bird pc lol.

jeff

 

[jg38141]

I have to agree with LTJLover, To say that p4 is a good system to "drop money into" right now is bogus. Especially since EVERYONE knows that the current p4 design line will be very short lived. If silver pheonix only buys a computer every 5 years he will be quite dissapointed when this one runs out of upgrade options in less than 1 year. If anything, if you have a permanant hard on for Intel, at least wait until the next version of the p4 comes out with the new chipset etc.

 

[girish]

hi all!
well, amd wil definitely have sse2 onboard in future, but what about the current techs its concentrating on???? will 3D Now!, MMX extentions (AMD and Cyrix specifics) be obsolete and are these of any use even now? How many sw devs support 3D Now! (other than some games of course, besides MMX has already become a standard)?

I have a other idea... why and where are these instructions used? all of these sets are used in SOME specific apps, and all are branded as multimedia and/or scientific apps. so why not create a set of libraries for specific sets of tasks using each of these technologies having a common sw interface (bingo! thatsa DLL) and let the apps use these libraries. apps ahould run no matter what cpu they are on.
its something like installing a driver for the CPU!

anybody interested in such development (i am a sw dev) pls drop me a mail.

girish