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[Santano]

Anyone know any?

I've heard Vista will make dual cores much more efficent espcially when it comes to load balencing with single processes. Is this true? If so, --I have a AMD Athalon 64x2 3800+, should I go ahead and DL the VISTA beta?

[Furious_DC]

Some dl's to optimize the duel core amd.

http://www.amd.com/u...1_13118,00.html

Edited by Furious_DC, 10 September 2006 - 04:42 PM.

[KatManDu]

AMD Athlonâ„¢ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor Driver first, then AMD Dual-Core Optimizer from that page. Works great on my AMD64x2. I will go for the Vista too later on, but for the moment I am happy with my XP.

[Santano]

Hmm, will try that once I get home tonight (Dads Birthday, so I'm at my parents house)
Edit: Wait, I'm Lying--No internet till monday


Hopefully, my interweb should be working Monday, so I should be able to do a run around in CSS (I get good framerate on everything else, Jumpy in CSS no matter what settings) but I'll defently check those out. Thanks DC



Oh, yeah, I found this too--Proves that the 4800+ is the best AMD processer

Edited by Santano, 10 September 2006 - 04:53 PM.

[Furious_DC]

yw and that chart shows that the 3800 is the better processor which sux coz I just bought a 4800.

[Why Two Kay]

yw and that chart shows that the 3800 is the better processor which sux coz I just bought a 4800.

Well, in that specific benchmark (3D graphics) it was. Your 4800+ will do better at running many many many more programs at once, and the processing of many different aspects may change.

[VetteDude]

yw and that chart shows that the 3800 is the better processor which sux coz I just bought a 4800.

Yeah, if you go by the numbers themselves. But look at the meaning of the numbers- the 4800 got a score of "1337"! The 3800 may have more speed, but the 4800 had t3h skillz

[Santano]

My 3800+ isnt preformaing near as well as I had hoped even with those tweaks installed.



Computer Stats--Whats my weak point

1 gig pc3200(2x 512)

AMD Athalon 64x2 3800+

7600GT PCI/e 16x

Abit Mobo, I forget the model number.

SATA HDD

[pest control]

that chart is compering 3800+ overclocked with 4800+, u see, u have to over overclock it to 2.7 gigs to reach the same score that 4800+ has it at stock clock (2.4)

u dont have a weak point, its just computers sux like that, check my pwn l337 box that i keep in kitchen

[Santano]

What I meant is "What should I upgrade Next"

[Fuel §]

dude...thats exactly the model i have in my room. Its so impressive...I can type words on it...press a button...and it comes out on paper!! ..crazy modern stuff

[PerfectSilence]

I've got a Dual Core AMD 64 X2 4600+. My Computer came with some AMD software for the processor, but I have never bothered to tweak or alter the settings as it runs beautifully. I mean, I can burn a DVD while I play BF2 and stream Audio, all while I do a virus scan of my backup Hard Drive. If that isn't impressive than I don't know what is.

[Why Two Kay]

That thing is so 1337; it has a STEERING WHEEL.

[USN_KniveS]

heh. I can play BF2 now. :/ Would always crash during loading stage.

[Noobie1 Canoli]

That thing is so 1337; it has a STEERING WHEEL.

Shut up n00b! Anyone can see that is what moves the cursor on the screen. One wheel is for vertical movement, the other for horizontal. Kinda like and etch-a-sketch.

[King of the Squirrels]

OK, What about the quad core coming out soon! The intell core 2 is basically two dual core chips. I think it is do out next month. The amd 4x4 is coming out soon too. Anybody have any more info?

[Why Two Kay]

OK, What about the quad core coming out soon! The intell core 2 is basically two dual core chips. I think it is do out next month. The amd 4x4 is coming out soon too. Anybody have any more info?

Intel's quad-core thing is going to rock. The Core2Duo is cheap, and very powerful, combine two and you are good to go.

AMD's 4x4 will be expensive, but probably more powerful. Although I still can not figure out how they get 4x4 from two dual-core processers? 4x4?

[pest control]

nope, AMD is not gona be more powerfull, it will run on higher bandwidth but AMD didnt get to build in fast architecture like inel. intels will operate faster per core, while AMDs will just have bigger bandwidth (which it will mater only in few apps/servers)
when it comes to rendering and gaming, intel will rule.
those qudro cores will be promoted for workstations and have higher prices. what they will do is draw the intel woodcrests (workstation rated core2duo's (51xx)) and new opterons prices down

here is an article if u wanna details in tech aspect

[Fuel §]

quick question about Dual Cores...how come they have lower GHz? like in the 1.8 GHz range? does that mean each core is 1.8?? i dont get it...i always thot faster, better processors had higher GHz...

[Why Two Kay]

quick question about Dual Cores...how come they have lower GHz? like in the 1.8 GHz range? does that mean each core is 1.8?? i dont get it...i always thot faster, better processors had higher GHz...

That stopped around the end of 2004. Processers, even before dual core, did not matter based on Ghz. Things such as hyperthreading, cache, bus speed, ram speed, all of that matters. The size of the circuits get smaller, things move quicker. There is hypertransport, DDR2, etc.

The ghz speed no longer matters that much.

My AthlonXP 2000+ ran at 2 ghz
My Athlon64 3000+ runs at 1.8 ghz

There is no way this 3000 is slower than the 2000. The bus speed uses the HyperTransport technology (2000mHz rated), I use PC3200 ram, PCI Express, etc.