AMD 64 Cpu

[Vijay]

Pardon my ignorance but could you tell me whether the exisisting Grapics cards will be usuable on a MB designed to run a n AMD 64 Cpu?

Thanks

Vijay

[Korky]

Yes, current amd64 motherboards carry the usual ago 8x slot. Dont know what the future holds though, wether agp will be binned and replaced completely by pci express but i wouldnt think this would happen for at least a year.

[Scott]

By which point, there will then be a sucessor to the AMD 64, and we'll have a whole new bunch of questions! :/

[Korky]

dont think there will be a successor to 64bit in a year, 32bit has been going for like 8 years lol.

[Swafe]

there will be a sucessor the a64 - amd will make a new 64bit processor i imagine in about 2 years, with a different core, but still 64 bit, like the k6, 7 and ath xps were all 32 bit, theres normally about 3 or so gens of a chip in each bittage

[Vijay]

Thanks Guys,

Wont have to worry for a couple of years .

Vijay

[unrealrocks]

I wouldn't be so sure, with Intel allready having test beds with PCIE and BTX cases. and ATi having silicon chips finished for there production R480s, and Nvidia only a few months behind with there PCIE range it maybe very soon when we see the first PCIE boards emerging, although the PCIE boards I have seen so far have all still had AGP and PCI 1.2 on them.

[BEANFro Elite]

korky's avatar is so nang mwah ha ha ha...

anyway the price to perforrmance boost ratio between an amd barton 3200+ and amd 64 is not that great especially when one considers that bartons (2500+) are going for around £80, you'd be a fool to miss out...

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