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Athlon 64 is very similar to the athlon xp. somthing like 80% of the core is the same, with more cache, basic 64bit support and integrated memory controller being the only difference.
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Proof? everything I have read states the athlon 64 as having full 64bit support unlike the
Basic and mostly emulated 64bit support the Itanium has (Could be wrong though I normally am, prove me wrong if you can
, I'd rather have my viewpoint corrected than to carry on spreading false info
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Why buy intel - Hyperthreading (cant live without it now), runs at the speed said on the box, reliability, compatibility (mines overclocked shed loads and still no crash / bsd / anything stopping from working in what 8 months, couldnt say that for 8 hours or my amd/via setup)
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Why overclock anyway, even if your intel is running good now, you hav an extremely high chance of your CPU just randomly and permanently flaking out in the next year or so, good thing about Intels for long time is that when the cpu dies it doesnt take your motherboard with it. Even AMD chipsets have this now though and thats a motherboard feature anyway so I dont know why I mentioned it.
Also Keyword there 'Via' Notorious for making bad AMD mobos until the last year or so and even then you get mixed reports.
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On another note the Opeteron / Athlon 64 is in a completly different market secter to the Intel Intanium which when compared the intanium 2 whipes the flaw with the amd chip.
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Any benchmarks to back that up? Im not doubting your statistics Ive just not seen anything to back that up
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silly pr ranking system thats complete tosh, for starters they've called 3 different chips a 2600+ neither of them are as fast as a P4 2.4C nevermind a 2.6C and there performance is widespread and allover the place there hardly equivelent to each other.
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If you knew what you where talking about you would know that the PR system is designed to compare the chip to its counterpart (Nameley the duron and not the P4) wch is also why AMD chips are often about 2 thirds the price of the equivelent P4 CPU (Especially in the low end chips)