opteron chips

[flashpan]

Thing is we will use 32 bit for a long while. Like we will still use Tapes for another 5 years and VHS another few Years while DVD taking over. Records the only thing there good now is to hold on to them for they can be worth some money. Some of mine are Worth over $300.

So what your saying is that my 286 proc is going to make me allot of money some day eh?.... Hmmm

Kidding around aside...its time to know where your from. I(as well as a great multitude)am guessing outside the US. *Durrr*. This could be why you are so off on the Intel road map. 4ghz is not 15 to 20 months out. It’s more like 8. Unless you are from one of those countries that the US says that you don’t get our latest and greatest toys. 20 months form now we’ll be talking about the Nehalem core and the 10ghz barrier.

If so, one solid fact remains, 64-bit procs only help you if your software will utilize them. Question: Dose the laser mill utilize 64-bit programming? Most likely not. So then why even worry about it. Are you really going to take this system off line/unplug it from your 40 machines *he says with a raised eyebrow* for some personal use? What a waste of a workhorse,time and money. If you want a 32/64-bit PC, great, go and do what the rest of the AMD fan boys are doing right now, prey that AMD would get Athlon64 working and release it some day soon. As for you work system, I'd call IBM personally. They’d fix you up with a beast of a workstation probably a quad Xeon or something. Just guessing. Have a friend that used to work for big blue and build systems for just that sort of thing. Ok not your sort of thing, it still sounds quite odd.

 

[Mephistopheles]

One question when we all move to 64 bit are we going back to 32 bit.

Why would you need 32-bit backward compatibility on your processors, then, if their only purpose is to control those 40 cutting machines with a program written in 32 bit (or 64, if you have already ported it)?

I think flashpan already asked that, but I just <i>had</i> to ask it myself. Again.

for ghz is False.

Sorry, but gigahertz is as false as Celsius or Fahrenheit. It's a direct measure and it <i>does NOT</i> "lie" - you're probably saying that just because clock rates don't contain any relevant information regarding the processors' IPC, that's all. So take it easy! Ghz isn't false.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Looking for a dual Opteron cpu and a good video card what running good at the time. And a good sound card which I can get right now. And two 250 gig or two 300 gig hard drives. And 2gb of ram. Then I m going to network the two computers togetther. My old amd 1800 1.5gb of ram gf3 ti 500 and 160 gig of hard and two 80 gig of hard drives then I can save software to this computer so if something happens to the main computer I still have it.

You're using a single, palomino-cored AXP with 1.5GB RAM and two 80GB hard drives? And you don't recognize that this configuration is very poor for a power user like yourself? What was wrong with my suggestion of Xeons? BTW, a 3.0Ghz P4 with 800Mhz FSB will make your old computer look very slow, and you can already put several SATA drives on RAID and use up to 4GB RAM. And anyway, you seem to be waiting for like 15-20 months from now to upgrade? Why are you bothering now? By then, lots of new techs will be out.

Ok when Intel xeon comes out with 4ghz I m guessing opteron will come out with a higher power cpu. Now when will this happen. And can this run reg software. I know this will be a high price computer.

OK, you <i>really</i> want AMD and will despise all Intel suggestions, right? Did you even bother looking at your question? "When Xeon is powerful, I won't buy it, I want to know what I can get from AMD by then, 20 months from now" Too far-fetched for me...

 

[flamethrower205]

*slap*!

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

 

[savantu]

You're an idiot.Looking at your posts i feel sorry for the guys who actually tried to understand the crap you were saying.



Long live Intel!

From the darkside...you know!