Windows XP Professional x64 Edition....!!!!! vary soon!!!!!!!!!!

[nikon]

eh, so what does this mean exactly?

[Turbo V6 Camaro]

Originally posted by nikon:
eh, so what does this mean exactly?

basically better graphics for gamers

faster running pc... able to add much much more ram and HUGE hard ddrives

[Infernal]

Originally posted by viper04af:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by nikon:
eh, so what does this mean exactly?

basically better graphics for gamers

faster running pc... able to add much much more ram and HUGE hard ddrives </font>[/QUOTE]I think the real benefit, at least immediately, will be to servers and beefy desktop applications, not games. 64 bit registers means a 64 bit data bus and a 64 bit address bus and thus the ability to not only address more memory, but to move twice as much data per clock cycle.

Game performance will almost always be bottlenecked on the video card and GPU, not the system board and processor (provided it's fast enough to execute the game loop without maxing out). There are and have been rare and short periods between video card generations where the bottleneck was moved back to the CPU, but this isn't the case in general.

There is no question, though, that the current architecture (especially AGP) will be limiting in the coming years insofar as graphics performance, and the advent of PCI-E is a step in the right direction (increasing interface clock speed) and it will continue to evolve.

[TealV6]

Originally posted by viper04af:
and Tealv6 this is good news for you [img]graemlins/stickpoke.gif[/img] linux users toooo not that you matter that much

What's so good about it for me?? Not like we'll use it at work anytime soon...

Besides...

512MB PC3200 (400MHz) Supports up to 8GB

Until it ships... Apple still works more... And we still have Tiger coming next month [img]graemlins/stickpoke.gif[/img]

[Turbo V6 Camaro]

Originally posted by Infernal:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by viper04af:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by nikon:
eh, so what does this mean exactly?

basically better graphics for gamers

faster running pc... able to add much much more ram and HUGE hard ddrives </font>[/QUOTE]I think the real benefit, at least immediately, will be to servers and beefy desktop applications, not games. 64 bit registers means a 64 bit data bus and a 64 bit address bus and thus the ability to not only address more memory, but to move twice as much data per clock cycle.

Game performance will almost always be bottlenecked on the video card and GPU, not the system board and processor (provided it's fast enough to execute the game loop without maxing out). There are and have been rare and short periods between video card generations where the bottleneck was moved back to the CPU, but this isn't the case in general.

There is no question, though, that the current architecture (especially AGP) will be limiting in the coming years insofar as graphics performance, and the advent of PCI-E is a step in the right direction (increasing interface clock speed) and it will continue to evolve. </font>[/QUOTE]thats where SLI comes in 2 graphics card working for the same goal......... and AGP is WAY out dated... look at al lthe top of the line boards there all PCI-E

[MrCoffee]

it will mean faster games. they will be able to take more advantage of faster access to memory. while you're right about the vid card being the bottleneck area on high end games, a transfer to 64 bit will still provide some gain. even with 'normal' mother boards, even with AGP, the gfx card does not take full advantage of the badwidth provided. PCI-E is just a new interface, gfx card makers still havent unlocked its bandwidth capabilites either.

[Infernal]

Originally posted by viper04af:
AGP is WAY out dated... look at al lthe top of the line boards there all PCI-E

I have a top of the line board (6800 GT). AGP 8x has more than enough bandwidth. The reason the new cards are PCI-E is because the new boards are PCI-E. It takes time to phase out old architectures. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[C.O.Jones]

Originally posted by mike h:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by C.O.Jones:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by mike h:
My computer hasn't blue-screened ... ever

I guess XP is just cool like that. :cool:

Easy way to blue screen. Use a USB ethernet connector. Knock it lose while tranferring data on the network. BOOM, blue screen.

Don't stop the USB device properly and remove.... BOOM blue screen. </font>[/QUOTE]Get a $5 network card. Problem solved! :cool: </font>[/QUOTE]1) $5 network card? Try $25.
2) Using laptops at work with one internal NIC card. Needed to hook up a second network (stand alone, no trust relationship between 1st and 2nd network). Either everyone gets PCIB network cards or we use USB Ethernet adapters. Long term, USB was the way to go - can move to other applications if needed.

[BiH]

Originally posted by C.O.Jones:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by mike h:
My computer hasn't blue-screened ... ever

I guess XP is just cool like that. :cool:

Easy way to blue screen. Use a USB ethernet connector. Knock it lose while tranferring data on the network. BOOM, blue screen.

Don't stop the USB device properly and remove.... BOOM blue screen. </font>[/QUOTE]wow :rolleyes: