64 bit or 32bit?
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Topic: 64 bit or 32bit?
Posted By: huwnet
Subject: 64 bit or 32bit?
Date Posted: 12 April 2005 at 11:40am
| I am thinking of buying a new pc. I was wondering if you would chose to stay with 32bit or switch to 64? |
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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 12 April 2005 at 11:42am
Well I don't think 23 bit exists lol so I would go for 62 bit
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 April 2005 at 12:10pm
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I would go for a 64bit Athlon as they are more or less the same price as 32 bit versions at the same speed. You'll also not need to upgrade so soon when all the 64bit software finally comes out. Then again by then things will be on dual core processors, so you'll probally want to upgrade anyway. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 12 April 2005 at 12:15pm
Indeed  |
Mart wrote:Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 12 April 2005 at 8:03pm
Well 62 does not exit either :)
I am acutally looking to build an AMD 40000 right now. They are slick machines and depending on what you run they can run apps much faster. The beauty is, if you run .net Applications, they automatically run as 64-bit if you are running XP64 even if they were compiled in 32bit ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 13 April 2005 at 5:03am
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This cell processor in the Ps3 looks awesome, coming out this
year. It's that secret one made with Toshiba, Sony and someone
else I think. It's got 9 cores, and can perform at rates of
16terra flops (in real world this figure will be a lot lower).
Has loads of cache as well, and they are planning to put 3 of them in
the PS3 as I understand, one being dedicated entirely to graphics! Wonder if they will come to PC's. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 13 April 2005 at 7:15am
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From what I have read, AMD and Intel are giving up on the Megahertz
battle and are looking for other ways to speed up their processors,
including processors that use multiple cores. Besides which we can't have a lame old games console being more powerful than a PC!!!! ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 13 April 2005 at 9:01am
| I think it's to do with the fact that they have basically reacher the physical limit to the closeness of the circutry before the currents jump, the next step which is what is happening now is to look into the material makeup of the processor, and mulitple cores. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 13 April 2005 at 12:23pm
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I'm more than happy with the speed of my machine, even my old 1GHz AMD
Duron laptop has enough speed for what I want most of the time. I would like to see processors that eat less of my electricity and run cooler so I can do away with the noisy fans. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 13 April 2005 at 1:11pm
| Partly down to materials used also. But yes, unless you play high end games or run some huge research lab you don't need much power really at the end of the day! |