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Story: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition RC1 tested

Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 14 January 2005, 1:18 AM)

So if you can get 2 times average performance and for compute intensive programs like games - 8 or more times performance (after all with 64 EM64-t you can gurantee SSE2) guess who will drive this market so that all desktops will be 64 bit within a year - gamers. Gamers drive the graphics processor market and that will drive the home desk top.

All NEW AMD chips are inherently 64 bit.

And do you really think that intel has it right - when you can buy an A530N HP workstation with an nforce3 chipset and Geforce graphics card today under $800 and I can assure you it screams with the 64 bit O/S. Thats nearly what an AM64-t intel chip will cost you that performsd as well as the AMD64 athlon.

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Story: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition RC1 tested

hardly 'set rolling by AMD and microsoft'. AMD, y... Jesus H. Christ
No mention of Apple.... typical. Your Momma
Mention of Apple? Why??? This is an ov... Joe Gee
Couldn't agree more about Microsoft being ver... Jure Repinc
The main benefit is 64 bit math, not 64 bit addres... Anonymous
Anon. said "The main benefit is 64 bit math,... Tris Orendorff
If you need more that 4GB of memory, the... Species8472
How about wanting to edit a complet... Anonymous
4GB of memory is not much in t... dpw
The writer must have forgotten about the Intel Ita... Anonymous
1. Microsoft has been working hard on x86-64... Paul Hsieh
Microsoft is also forgetting about the 6... Anonymous
"The writer must have forgotten about the Int... Anonymous
The Itanium is a completely different archite... Al
Quite right. Itanium has nothing to do w... Matt Loney
I'm afraid the review was a non-event, half the ti... Mike Collins
Re. Mike Collins' comment: as far as 'sitting... Charles McLellan
So if you can get 2 times average performance and... Anonymous
Don't download this Beta! It is not what you think... Anonymous
1218 may be available for download to the lay... Anonymous
XP and 2003 follow the same build number... Anonymous
They are 64bit software out! just look here http:/... wiak
Are there any NIC adapters that have 64-Bit drive... Anonymous
Re. Mike Collins' comment: Well I agree with Mike... Gerald

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