Athlon 64bit CPU !!!

[pijetro]

Although my familiartity with computers is somewhat basic, this Athlon 64bit CPU sounds too good to be true..
Will it be possible that speeds go so fast, that I won't even neeed to purchase a Matrox or Canopus card in the future??

With support of up to 1000gig of ram, who needs to render to Hard disk anymore??

I was planning on upgrading from my current P111 1ghz processor, to a P4, but I'm thinking that a little wait for the Athlon 64bit CPU sounds a bit more promising..

The main reason is the MPEG2 encoding times...I can only achieve decent speeds with Half D1, and AVISynth into CCE at best...It would be ideal to serve off the Premiere timeline into my encoder at a fast enough rate..

I'm thinking that software encoding will reach new heights.

Any thoughts???

[808smokey]

AMD 64 are great if you use program that utilize 64 bit technology otherwise it will be running at 32 bit. I can't think of a need for one right now but a year from now...? Yeah I'd get one. There's not a whole of programs that use it right now. I heard there's a new 64 bit windows platform coming out eventually


Also 1000gig of RAM is 1 terabyte of ram. I think you one to many zeros Unless they're talking about some kind of $$$ server board

[pijetro]

Nice pic....

Yes, i believe I read correctly when it said 1000gig of ram...

But even if the applications are at 32 bit, I'm sure that every little drop is going to get used up by the 64 bit processor....

I've noticed the earlier Matrox cards had most of the processing on board, but with the newest versions of Matrox, they've gone the opposite way and let the faster CPUs take much of the work away from the cards...

[indolikaa]

Wait until magnetoresistive RAM gets here this spring. Bye, bye hard drives!

[Cobra]

An Athlon 64 can address up to 16 pentabytes of RAM:

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/amd64_3400/2.html

Down on the bottom paragraph. A pentabyte is a stage up from a terabyte.

On the subject of new kinds of memory, take a look at this:

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/holographic-memory.htm

(Howstuffworks.com) Eventually, these devices could have storage capacities of 1 TB and data rates of more than 1 GB per second -- fast enough to transfer an entire DVD movie in 30 seconds.

CobraDMX[/b]

[furry_beans]

Personally, I'm looking forward to holographic storage