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(OT) Has anyone upgraded to the new AMD chip?

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Did they pull it out of a Pacer?

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I know, I screwed up my topic header! I wish I could fix it.

 

But those Pacers had way to much glass in them.

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I know, I screwed up my topic header! I wish I could fix it.

 

But those Pacers had way to much glass in them.

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I know. But I just couldn't resist. :P

 

My grandmother (God rest her soul), who I share my birthday with, literally owned every bad American car from the era. Gremlin, Pacer, Pinto, El Camino, you name it. Brutal.

 

Still, you made me think of her. Thanks. :)

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Not yet, but I will in a month or two. I'm looking at building a dual Opteron 246 (or possibly dual Opteron 248, if the price ever comes down a bit). Most people probably don't need dual CPUs; however, I do video editing and the extra power for rendering would be *very* nice. Plus, I've been spoiled with my current dual-Xeon 933MHz configuration for the past 3 years... (it was awesome at the time...).

 

Why do you ask?

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Just curious is anyone has tried the new AMD Athlon 64 Bit Processor?

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Your wife can have one implanted in your head so she can keep track of you. :P

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Your wife can have one implanted in your head so she can keep track of you.  :P

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Opteron chips don't have GPSes or networking built in... :);)

 

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Well......invent one!  :P

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But I'm an admin, dear CL, an admin, an admin. I'm an admin, dear CL, an admin not an electrical Engineer! :)

 

(sung to the tune of, "There's a whole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza)

 

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But I'm an admin, dear CL, an admin, an admin.  I'm an admin, dear CL, an admin not an electrical Engineer!  :)

 

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Excuses. Excuses. :P

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But I'm an admin, dear CL, an admin, an admin.  I'm an admin, dear CL, an admin not an electrical Engineer!  :P

 

(sung to the tune of, "There's a whole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza)

 

CW

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Stop telling me why you can't. Friggin' quitter.

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Not yet, but I will in a month or two.  I'm looking at building a dual Opteron 246 (or possibly dual Opteron 248, if the price ever comes down a bit).  Most people probably don't need dual CPUs; however, I do video editing and the extra power for rendering would be *very* nice.  Plus, I've been spoiled with my current dual-Xeon 933MHz configuration for the past 3 years... (it was awesome at the time...).

 

Why do you ask?

CW

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My son built a Dual Xeon watercooled system for me about 4 months ago. It pretty quick although hard disk access has now become a bottleneck. He likes to tell me that with hyperthreading I really have 4 processors.

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But I'm an admin, dear CL, an admin, an admin.  I'm an admin, dear CL, an admin not an electrical Engineer!  :P

 

(sung to the tune of, "There's a whole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza)

 

CW

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Slacker. You have a couple of days before the next Bills game. Start now, and you should be done by then.

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Stop telling me why you can't.  Friggin' quitter.

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I wasn't telling you, I was telling CL. Mind your own business :)

 

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Not yet, but I will in a month or two.  I'm looking at building a dual Opteron 246 (or possibly dual Opteron 248, if the price ever comes down a bit).  Most people probably don't need dual CPUs; however, I do video editing and the extra power for rendering would be *very* nice.  Plus, I've been spoiled with my current dual-Xeon 933MHz configuration for the past 3 years... (it was awesome at the time...).

 

Why do you ask?

CW

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I have upgrade fever and I'm thinking about upgrading to this.

 

 

Asus board with AMD 64 bit chip

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Hi Fez. Im going to upgrade in the next couple weeks. Im getting a:

 

AMD64 Socket 939 3500+ 90 nanometer(new smaller die supposed to run cooler and better overclocker)

See here http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc....-103-494&depa=1

 

Getting a MSI Neo Platinum mobo(also good overclocker)

See here

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc....-130-468&depa=1

 

Also a nice heatsink. Good thing about this one is the fan is larger than usual so it doesnt have to spin as fast, resulting in a quieter cooling solution.

See here

http://heatsinkfactory.com/cgi-bin/HFAstor...atalogno=HS-004

 

My last 4 upgrades have been with AMD based chips and I have absolutely nothing bad to say about them. Stable as hell and a much better bang for the buck. Especially if your into gaming. I used to be a devoted Intel guy but I thought I would give AMD a shot based on price and Ive never looked back. Like I said I plan to get this stuff in the next couple weeks so I can let you know how the 64 bit system works iif you like

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