looking to build a new PC and am trying to decide on getting an AMD 64
or 64 X2 chip? i know the first is for pure horsepower and the other is
for multitasking. any other advantages/disadvantages of one over the
other?? i have heard that gaming with the X2 is a little tricky
requiring some tweaking. as far as multitasking...i don't plan to do
anything else while gaming.

thanks in advance for the answers,
todd

On 2006-04-15, Answer Seeker <amateurgolfnut_REMOVEme@yahoo.com> wrote:
AMD64 isn't necessarily 'pure horsepower'. They come in all speeds depending
on how they rated in their testing. One nice thing about AMD64 is that they
are fully 32-bit compatible.

If you are running WindowsOS then you won't see a speed difference because
of the '64' part of the name for quite awhile.

You might have to 'turn off' one of the cores...it depends, but it's not
'tricky'.

Just buy the fastest you can afford for gaming. 32bit vs. 64bit doesn't
matter that much right now. I happen to like AMD64 because of it's
versatility but that doesn't seem to me what you are looking for.
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