Prescott - Worth the Wait ??

Unless you want to wait another 6 months or so buy the 2.8C. That will hold you untill Tejas for your next upgrade.

I would say wait. Only a month away and if the X-bit lab report is correct the price will be right. If Prescott flops, you can always buy the northwood later.

Anxiously awaiting prescott....is it here yet?

Those prices are only MSRP, retailers can adjust them whichever-whichway they want. Chances are they will jack the prices up if Intel advertises well (they will), so don't count your chickens before they hatch. Oh yeah!...no one knows how good the performance really is on Scotty.

TomV, wait until benchies are out before you decide.

Damn Rambus.

I realize nothing can be done about retailers jacking up the prices on hot items, but I honestly don't think we will see much of that. If the market is flooded with cheap Prescotts, retailers will have so much competition they won't be able to do any price fixing.

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Not mine.

You got something to back that up or are you just spewing Intel PR again.

If I glanced at a spilt box of tooth picks on the floor, could I tell you how many are in the pile. Not a chance, But then again I don't have to buy my underware at Kmart.

Re: all he said that a 64 bit CPU has to be put into 32 bit mobos. any more explanations?

NO what he said was ... How about the fact that every...single...motherboard for the A64 currently on the market is junk?

Big difference FOOL..

If I glanced at a spilt box of tooth picks on the floor, could I tell you how many are in the pile. Not a chance, But then again I don't have to buy my underware at Kmart.

Well if you are smarter than everyone else you explain it .... IDIOT

If I glanced at a spilt box of tooth picks on the floor, could I tell you how many are in the pile. Not a chance, But then again I don't have to buy my underware at Kmart.

How about this, rather than have me comment on every single board, why don't you show me your favorite so I can knock it down?

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Like I said, find a board, I'll knock it down. Lots of nice AMD boards out there, for their XP series.

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Sorry to hear about your mentally disabled body. Make it happy, take it to disneyland.

Well Crashman, I know you hate via, but the chipset does so little on the A64 boards, that we should be seeing bios fixes soon.
As for you blah, I'm just someone who has read enough of your posts to realize you neeed a little joy in your life. You will probably never get "lucky", so I thought disneyland was a good bet.

Re: Like I said, find a board, I'll knock it down. Lots of nice AMD boards out there, for their XP series.

Crashman I really grow tired of your games. I have asked nothing more of you than to answer your previous post...

"How about the fact that every...single...motherboard for the A64 currently on the market is junk"

Stop turning this around and answer my question!!!! Do you or do you not have anything to back this up. YES or NO!!

Why do you keep answering this legitimate question with another question?


If I glanced at a spilt box of tooth picks on the floor, could I tell you how many are in the pile. Not a chance, But then again I don't have to buy my underware at Kmart.

dude, I am getting little shaky of you. running software in 64 bit mode on a 32 bit hardware does not give you all the goodies of having the 64 bit setup, can you get it into your head? can you stick 64 bit nic or SCSI into any of the boards you are talking about? or have 64 Gig of ram installed and utilized on those boards? dah..

..this is very useful and helpful place for information...

Do you think that if we combined darko and blah that they would cancel each other out and form one reasonable person?

Or perhaps "it" would be so conflicted internally that it wouldn't know what to say and it would just SHUT UP by default.

Then again, we might just end up with one ultra-confused pain in the ass.

Oh and crashman I see you are still posting and I'd love an answer to my last post to you...

Re: Like I said, find a board, I'll knock it down. Lots of nice AMD boards out there, for their XP series.

Crashman I really grow tired of your games. I have asked nothing more of you than to answer your previous post...

"How about the fact that every...single...motherboard for the A64 currently on the market is junk"

Stop turning this around and answer my question!!!! Do you or do you not have anything to back this up. YES or NO!!

Why do you keep answering this legitimate question with another question?

If I glanced at a spilt box of tooth picks on the floor, could I tell you how many are in the pile. Not a chance, But then again I don't have to buy my underware at Kmart.

It may have been a bit harsh to lump you in with blah, but people who get all excited arguing with crash aren't generally the most reasonable sort of people. I see you have a temper. I, however, will gladly take a cookie, thank you wusy.

I will retract my criticism of darko barring further investigation.

I tend to agree with ya Crash A64 boards kinda... well ya they suck pretty bad right now.

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I carry the legacy of one of your fallen; let us remember him fondly for he is always watching.

taitertot is a Intel fanboy....

taitertot since crash is busy or sleeping whatever. Can you enlighten us on how you came to this conclusion? Or will you wait for crash to post and then feebley try and back it up.

That's what I thought. No real answer just a pile of crap.

If I glanced at a spilt box of tooth picks on the floor, could I tell you how many are in the pile. Not a chance, But then again I don't have to buy my underware at Kmart.

hay Darko21 Your a moron for typing that way. For not everyone has there screen set to 1024/768. So grow up

Intel fanboy? Suppose so since I use a Intel processor. But thats neither here nor there, since I plainly stated that the "current" round of A64 (oops missed this:motherboards) sucks.

With considerations everyone in their dog is aware of the nForce3 chipset problems, A64 motherboard BIOS issues, poor overclocking potential of the chipsets, lack of very common features on certain chipsets such a Serial ATA, Gigabit and the like.

Then we have the VIA thing I dont even want to address since its VIA and well its VIA. Theres SIS and ALI they have always been relyable but a bit sluggy on the performance side as well as features. Then AMD's own chipset is lacking.

So when you take all this into considerations plop these issues with the motherboards you end up with a pretty crappy situation.

Its always been this way, AMD's chipset's and their partner chipsets are usually a bit flacky in the begining, their motherboards they offer are a bit slack on features so that they can reach the desired price points of the users they are targeting. Basically to undercut Intel in any which way and form.

Itll get better the second round for AMD and their partners has always been a far better experience then the first...

Plus they cant be perfect like a blue corp we know of.

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You guys are funny; get so touchy about processors, almost like someone called your momma fat or something.

Now I don’t follow the posts that you guys make, and who are the trolls, but darko KrazeIke’s comment was funny. Have no sense of humor? Part of the comment was the fact that you two were polar to each other and it would make for an interesting combination. But who am I to say, maybe he needs to put <sarcasm></sarcasm> to prevent people from taking him seriously.

The AMD FX line is the extreme line, similar to the P4 EE, so it makes sense why it takes a P4 EE to challenge it, almost a DAH on that one. And really, for all intensive purposes, the AMD 64 should blow the P4 out of the water no questions asked because it is a new architecture, and the P4 is beginning to date itself. However the fact remains that is doesn’t. In fact more often than not the P4 will out do the AMD chip…. Makes me think that their whole numbering system is off, where what they call a AMD 3200+ really should be labeled a AMD 3000+. Like other people have said, wait for the Prescott to be making comparisons.

The AMD 64 is only semi 64 any ways. You stick a 64 chip in a 32bit world and you can only use 32bits. Only some of the drivers out there for vid cards have any 64bit support. Windows isn’t even to the 64bit state yet. You can say Linux all you want, but face it, Its not mainstream until MS is behind it. Sad as that might be, it’s the truth. We are not ready for 64bit yet, it’s good that someone is pushing for it, but not there yet. And for all we know, Intel could make its own 64bit system and MS will make that the 64bit extension they support making the AMD 64bit stuff useless. Nothing is future proof.


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