THose are some nice benchmarks. Its still running those games in 32bit though. This is just another AMD PR to get people thinking athlon before the winter time comes around. I guess they are calling these desktop chips because of the L2 cache.. but "not" cause of the memory speeds.
Here's a...
THose are not the Athlons that everyone has been waiting for. Well not the desktop version codename (Diego) and the Workstation/server version Athens. Those are in fact Athlons64's based on the Operton chips. (.13 nano). What im talking about is the (.90 nano's) That were said to be relesed...
NO... Teh fx is not the 64bit chip. THere's 3 (codenames) for those. Athens,Diego.... and the last one i cant think of right now. The fx are budget chips. Kinda like their new Durons. So your wrong there. Srry
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Dont take this the wrong way. But if your going to say something..about...
Start here
Then if you need a step-by-step go here
If thats to much for ya then go back to the OC fourms and read anything and everything about similar systems....
Its fun, but it can bite you in the arse if your not wise. gl
fRAg'n j00 ALL soon...
T.B = Throughbred B. ITs a different stepping (notice my sig.. The 0302 is the 2nd week in 2003. The code "Jiuhb" is the stepping.) There was a time about 4-5 months ago when the bartons were still knew. AMD released these Throughbred B's to certain retailers. They were hard to find. Most didnt...
List your m/b, power supply, and ram and Ill see what i can post before i leave to work...
Depending on your cooling and what thermal paste you have on your cpu you could get upwards of 1.7-1.9. If the 1700 is a (T.B) Then you may be able to get more.
Balancing the multiplier with your...
well not really... But its sure fun to play with toys that cost $48 dollars each.. Ive gone through 2 1700+tb.. One @ 2.3 and this present can hit 2.5 with a nice day outside.. :P
Well... I can surely guess.
3rd-4thQ,03 Ati 9800pro cost $335-399
2nd-3rdQ,04 Ati 9800pro cost $259-320
2nd-3rdQ,04 Ati 9900pro cost {{{$459}}} *
*pciEx up another $20-30