Originally posted by: infinite012
$640 at newegg definitely is NOT close to $900...
EDIT: It's close to the $650 one...but you could probably still see a bigger performance increase by using the 3.2 over the opteron in normal desktop use.
Exactly. And it is not selling well. But in a compatible mobo I can put 2.4C and overclock it to 3.2. What can you use in 754 dual channel mobo? Is there any new 754 duron??The p4 3.2ghz is around the same price.
It looks to me like Opteron 246's are $830 and $900 at Newegg: Opteron 246.Originally posted by: infinite012
$640 at newegg definitely is NOT close to $900...
EDIT: It's close to the $650 one...but you could probably still see a bigger performance increase by using the 3.2 over the opteron in normal desktop use.
?Because of our new content tools, we're already feeling a very strong need for 64-bit internally right now, and by year's end I expect we'll look at 64-bit as something that we couldn't possibly do our jobs without. We expect this sentiment to carry over to other game developers in the next 12 months, to high-end consumers over the next 24 months, and the wide mainstream all the way down to the lowest end of the market within 36 months.?
Tim goes on to say, ?In our next-generation technology, we are building 2,000,000-polygon meshes, and running them through a preprocessing program that analyzes the geometry and self-shadowing potential of the mesh based on thousands of incident lighting direction using per-pixel floating point math, and compresses all of this data down to texture maps, bump maps, and 16-component spherical harmonic maps at as high a resolution as possible.
This process uses many gigabytes of memory, and implementing it on 32-bit CPU's places a lot of constraints on the size of meshes we can preprocess and the resolution of maps we can generate. With onerous programmer gymnastics, this kind of algorithm could be made disk-based or Address Windowing Extensions aware, but these approaches require an order of magnitude more development effort, and aren't practical given the frequency with which we change and improve our algorithms.?
Originally posted by: dannybin1742
there is a reason that the flagship processor is $650-----------> thats why its called a flagship processor, its the fastest, how much is a p4 3.2ghz? how much do you think a prescot will run you? probably around the same give a month or two till they release lower clocked ones, then you will start seeing people buy lowerclocked that can be oced to the higher clock
prices will come down, they always do
from hereEvil Avatar: Can you give me any idea what kind of a performance increase people might see running the 64-bit version?
Tim Sweeney: In pure CPU performance, Athlon64 is about 15% faster than previous Athlon's of identical clock rate for 32-bit apps, and 30% for 64-bit apps, because it exposes double the number of CPU registers, enabling the compiler to generate more efficient code. As for UT2003 performance, we haven't benchmarked yet but expect it to be faster though less than 30% because the GPU is as significant a factor as CPU.
Originally posted by: stevejst
I don't see they have any plans to release lower clocked ones. Where did you hear that? I see the crippled board ones (one channel) which is nothing compatible with the "flagship" thing.
Originally posted by: stevejst
Yes, I have to say I am getting lost with all this but I know I have no intention paying $350 for a single channel one. And then waht, when the 940 becomes more affordable to throw 754 chip and buy both mobo and a new chip? Nice idea.
Actually it is a reputable source of information. Did you confuse it with "National Inquirer"?Wow... bunches of links to the Inquirer... that's hardly a reputable source of information.
Originally posted by: sellmen
Opteron Desktop Benchmarks
A 2GHZ opteron outperformed a P4 3.2ghz (11/17 tests won) on desktop benchmarks, while using registered CAS2.5 RAM. Switching to regular CAS2 DDR should improve performance significantly.
Originally posted by: stevejst
Yes, I have to say I am getting lost with all this but I know I have no intention paying $350 for a single channel one. And then waht, when the 940 becomes more affordable to throw 754 chip and buy both mobo and a new chip? Nice idea.
Originally posted by: stevejst
We shall shortly see what these new AMD processors are capable of. Unfortunately AMD has been engaged in paper releases of processors for more than a year already, and their fan sites like AMDzone are just another twist in the sorry story that AMD has become.
The performance is not on their side for some time already and business has never been.
Originally posted by: stevejst
Yes, I have to say I am getting lost with all this but I know I have no intention paying $350 for a single channel one. And then waht, when the 940 becomes more affordable to throw 754 chip and buy both mobo and a new chip? Nice idea.
What are you incinerating, DBZ?Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
Originally posted by: stevejst
We shall shortly see what these new AMD processors are capable of. Unfortunately AMD has been engaged in paper releases of processors for more than a year already, and their fan sites like AMDzone are just another twist in the sorry story that AMD has become.
The performance is not on their side for some time already and business has never been.
Put the flamethrower down, boy. You'll burn yourself.