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All the way in 64 bit!

okay, brace yourselves. A few months ago, as some of you might recall, I got a new CPU; the shiny new AMD Athlon 64 3200. Just today, I read the greatest headline;
Microsoft Launches Beta for Windows® XP 64-Bit Edition. AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor Compatible
This is totally great. I am looking into it right now, but I am just giddy! I’m looking into trying the free 360 day trial(okay, that’s like a year.) right now.

Windows® XP 64-Bit Edition is designed to address the most demanding needs of technical workstation users who require large amounts of memory and floating point performance in areas such as mechanical design and analysis, digital content creation and scientific and high-performance computing applications. Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems is only compatible with AMD Opteron™– and AMD Athlon™ 64 processor-based computers.

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AMD is to Intel as Google is to Yahoo

We all know that gmail is the new dollar, google is the web, and yahoo is trying to hold on. In a similar manner we have AMD. We know that AMD has had their 64bit processors out for a while. I know for certain because I’ve been running one perfectly well for over a week now. AMD announced that they are coming out with dual core processors next year, ahead of Intel who I just read, discontinued work on to other chips including their continuation of their Pentium chip to focus on a dual core chip. I apologize to any Intel fans(do they exist?) but my opinion is that they’ll be getting burried in not too long. It would probably take the general public longer to pick up on this, but like Google, I think AMD will take over.

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Processor Land

Today, I was browsing online for what processor I would like to get when I am able to upgrade. As some of you know, I am a total AMD girl. I would love to have an Athlon 64 FX. Super Cool. The coolest processor ever. Unfortunately, it’s like $700. So I think that I would like an Athlon 64, probably a 3200+

Of course, I’d need a new motherboard, but I haven’t decided about that yet. Gotta choose the processor first!