Recent content by ALIEN3001

My mistake, 1/3 of USA's GDP per capita.

In my country 1L of gas is $2.5, Athlon64 3000+ is ~$250 ($179 at Newegg) and if your computer is on 24/7, extra 60W is not a small difference. Plus, our GDP is about 1/3 of the USA's.

There is another problem with high consumption. High consumption = higher electricity bill. The difference is pretty high when comparing a Winchester A64 3500+ and Prescott 3.4GHz (both priced around the same). Not only the Athlon64 is faster, it also saves you money in the long tearm. And...

A stock HSF is quite sufficient for about 85W of dissipation from a 200mm^2 core (A64-FX55), compared to 115W of dissipation from a 90mm^2 core (Prescott LGA3.2GHz, LGA3.4GHz, LGA3.6GHz).

When you'll know enough about computers, you'll find out, that a chip with LESS MHz may be faster than a chip with more MHz (1.5GHz Itanium2 is faster than 2.4GHZ Athlon64 FX-53 is faster than a Pentium4 3.6GHz).

AthlonXP's FSB is different than Athlon64's "FSB". Read about that, then post comments. Higher HTT frequency wouldn't change anything, since an increase from 800MHz to 1GHz changed nothing, a further increase would not help much. 250x4 is stupid. AMD made a decision to go the 200x5 route, why...

The memory controller runs on the same speed as the entire core (eg 2GHz for a 2GHz Athlon64).

AMD spent months/years on preaparing 90nm process for their CPUs, now they'll just throw it away, and concentrate for a few more months on producing 110nm, PLUS you'd have to have THREE separate production lines - one for 130nm, one for 110nm, one for 90nm. That costs a lot of money. Secondly -...

They'll be out in 2006, PRESUMING they won't have simmilar problems than with 90nm Prescotts, they will be outdated when released. 90nm dual-core 2.0GHz Opterons will have a TDP lower than 100W, and we all know the difference between Intel's TDP and AMD's TDP. Athlon64 4000+ will be out soon...

Let's see - 115W for a 3.4GHz Pentium4 and less than 89W for Athlon64 4000+ (coming out soon), even less for their new 90nm parts (it's possible to buy them, but in limited quantities, since they've been out for like one week). Also keep in mind - Pentium4 3.6GHz (best P4 -not EE- that's...

Yep, that's smart. DDR2 800 has an actual frequency of 200MHz, DDR1 400 has an actual frequency of 200MHz, just don't forget that. DDR2's internal frequency is lower than DDR1's. Secondly, DDR2 is not just about pure speed. It's latencies are higher, plus Intel's FSB is still 200MHz QDR...

Every modern processor can manage to do one CPU-intensive task (eg encoding) and a lot of other tasks (Winamp, FireFox, eMule,...), doing two CPU-intensive tasks will give you very low FPS on a non-HT CPU, but if the CPU is fast it will complete the encoding task sooner and you can still plat...

start-settings-control panel-display--> settings-advanced--> 3D - uncheck "use custom settings" if it's checked, then set Direct3D to performance (move slider to the left) - apply, restart, then try again.

He's probably got all 3D settings set to "high performance", not "high quality". Try overclocking your graphics card to the same GPU/RAM frequency as R9800PRO's (3DMark2003 is very GPU bound, Celeron 1.6GHz + R9800PRO gives you about the same score as AXP 2.2GHz + R9800PRO).

2 CPU intensive things at once, not just "2 things at once".