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Re: Amd 64 vs Amd X2
Not Alone out there: They are really the same, as everyone has explained, it just whether or not two processors are on one chip.
A lot of people can benefit from dual cores, but not everyone will. You need it when running multiple processing intensive steps, dynamic stuff. Programs that keep doing some kind of activity. A web browser, for instance, isn't such a process, but if you are running a P2P app and want to burn at the same time, then a dual core is for you.
BTW, if you go with the Socket 939, which AMD is now dropping, the top model, the 4800 can really overclock. Actually the FX-60 is a dual core so it is the top model in that line. If you want to build a system using current technology, than an AM2 series process for the different socket 940 is the way to go.
People who just browse the web and write documents don't need dual cores, IMHO.
Also, as far as the 64 bit is concerned, 64 bit is only somewhat useful, and the OSs out for it, with the exception of the unix type OSs, well, many manufacturers don't have drivers for it, and I have been told that in some tasks running in a 64 bit OS things can be slower, it depends on the type of processes the CPU is, well, processing. Even so, as time moves forward, 64 bit will eventually be how everything is. Probably the next version of Windows after Vista a few years down the line, may only come in 64 bit, we shall see.
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