AMD Athlon 64 DUAL CORE Cpu's

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:38 am

check em out!
http://www.hwupgrade.it/articoli/1193/1.html

source/props:
http://www.hardocp.com/

Post by **Bdw3** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:45 am

:icon28:

*starts collecting loose change*

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:52 am

form what was said in other reviews, As long as you got a socket 939, you are good to go to sport on of them sumsabitches... Well, that and a bios update...

i cant wait... SMP+64-bit=OWNAGE

Post by **Psyche911** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:48 am

AmIdYfReAk wrote: i cant wait... SMP+64-bit=OWNAGE

Well, you're going to have to wait.
Games, for example, probably wont run any faster than they do right now on a 3800+ as they wont use the second core.

Well, not for a year or so for SMP aware games to begin shipping.

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:28 am

Well it's not like Q3 \r_smp 1 gives you double the framerate does it?

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:50 pm

dzjepp wrote:Well it's not like Q3 \r_smp 1 gives you double the framerate does it?

that is a USUALLY Server side Cvar, some people reported actually bein able to use that client side, and getting a little frame rate increase... but thats about it.

Psyche911 wrote:
AmIdYfReAk wrote: i cant wait... SMP+64-bit=OWNAGE
Well, you're going to have to wait.
Games, for example, probably wont run any faster than they do right now on a 3800+ as they wont use the second core.

Well, not for a year or so for SMP aware games to begin shipping.

AMD is working with a few companys and etc to see if they can get the to start porting to 64-bit and etc.. so it wont be TO long..

Post by **Psyche911** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:30 am

dzjepp wrote:Well it's not like Q3 \r_smp 1 gives you double the framerate does it?

On a dual CPU Mac, it sure helps. Not quite double, but sometimes around 80%, I believe. I think the SMP in the Windows version is fucked. Either that, or it just doesn't like HyperThreading.

I turned HT on & /r_smp 1 and it was jerky and dropped by quite a bit.