Thread: Cheap & Cheerful Graphics Card
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Old 17-08-2005, 21:45   #20
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Re: Cheap & Cheerful Graphics Card
Unconvinced by "64 bit" - YET! - and I say this with an Intel P4 640 (64 bit, hyperthreading, 2Mb cahe) on my desk.

At the moment, the best that can be said of most "64 bit" processors, is that they are 64 bit ready - since while I belive you can get 64 bit windows, ther is very little 64 bit software.

If you worry about 64 bit, maybe you should also worry about dual core.

Sure, the "full" Athlon 64's are better than the Sempron 64's - as they have more cache.
64 bitness is not a factor, unless you plan to upgrade to 64 bit windows during the lifetime of the machine - a lifetime which is already set to see another AMD socket specification.


I am convinced, not of any real merit in PCI-E over AGP 8x, but that the switchover has been forced to the point where you would not want to be looking for an AGP card upgrade in a year or two's time. Until the AMD motherboards with PCI-E came out, I though it was going to end up as an Intel versus AMD thing.
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