Athlon 64 3700+ & 4000+ are coming

User Comments: 8

1. January 19, 2004 2:05 PM
   Vehementi said:
   That is awesome. What clock speed are these chips going to run at? I would love to feel an AMD chip at 3GHz, or even like 2.6-2.8.And I guess we can just consider the FX line of A64's dead?
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2. January 19, 2004 2:30 PM
   ak_in_charge said:
   I wonder what the price is going to run on one of those right out of the box???
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3. January 19, 2004 6:47 PM
   werty316 said:
   FX-51 is gone in my book. Costs too much. All this new hardware is making me want to retire my XP1600+
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4. January 19, 2004 8:41 PM
   snowman said:
   wow. i just bought my new Athlon system and already its looking obsolete with all this new technology coming out.
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5. January 19, 2004 10:17 PM
   XtR-X said:
   Very very nice. Very very convincing. But I'm not taking my leap into the 64 bit world for another year or two.
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6. January 20, 2004 6:33 AM
   Federelli said:
   Me neither, unless that more than 70% of applications come out in 64bit format
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7. January 20, 2004 9:31 AM
   NoisySilence said:
   It's not that big of a deal. Getting a Athlon64 now is the same thing as when people got the 9700 Pro [b]before[/b] DX9 got released. It works very well now as it is, & once apps in 64bit are available, it will only get better.It's not like you're getting a bad machine by getting one of those right now.
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8. January 21, 2004 8:14 AM
   PlayfullyEvil said:
   I agree, NoisySilence. To put it into closer perspective: anyone remembre when the P6 (Pentium Pro) line was initially released? Win95 OSR1 was slow on it, but it's performance was realized when using Windows NT 4.0. I would anticipate the same performance results with the Athlon64s (FX or otherwise). Sure the performance is on par with an Athlon XP 3200+ (all other relative components being equal) with Windows XP-32/2k; but once Windows XP-64 is utilized in tandem with 64-bit applications, the performance will much greater. As Microsoft seems to have a solid foot supporting AMD64, I don't see a reason not to jump on the Athlon64 bandwagon - even if it means getting trailing edge AMD64 technology.Personally, I'll be upgrading my Palomino XP2000+ when the AMD64/4000+ is made available. I'll just be picking up the Athlon64 3200+ then. Hopefully the price will drop reasonably, provided the processor will still be available.Call me cheap, call me budget-conscious. I just don't feel I NEED the fastest components out there when what I have (and what I hope to upgrade to) suffices for my gaming and development needs.
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