Örn Hansen wrote:
fredag 05 mars 2004 03:36 skrev BandiPat:
Steven, If you are wanting better performance, actually doing two things at once, then go for a dual cpu motherboard. If you are just wanting speedups, then go for the Opteron/Athlon64 cpu. Hyperthreading was just another gimmick Intel tried to use for an already bad cpu, the Pentium IV.
Which brings me to the question, of how does Athlon64 perform. Is it worth upgrading to it, there are numerous different reports out there.
Most of the reviews I've seen of the Athlon64 have been comparing it on 32-bit operating systems, e.g against P4 which tells me nothing about 64-bit, however, I shall let the list know my experience when I have a 64-bit operating system installed on the laptop I expect to land on my doorstep on Monday. I'm preparing to install gentoo 64-bit on it at first and later SuSE 64-bit on another hard drive. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.