How long until 64-bit catches on?

[carlosponti]

It just seems to me like something the uber-geek does for bragging rights.

yeah so! ha ha i think you just answered your own question. i have ran raid in the past it was a fun little thing to do. i also ran dual processor which was another thing that no one really needs to do but the bragging rights were there for the plucking.

[techieMoe]

yeah so! ha ha i think you just answered your own question. i have ran raid in the past it was a fun little thing to do. i also ran dual processor which was another thing that no one really needs to do but the bragging rights were there for the plucking.

At least you've got your priorities straight.

[carlosponti]

i also bought a quad processor compaq proliant server form ebay to play with. cost me under 1000 dollars and i ran oracle on it for kicks at home. i dont run it currently because my electricity bill was through the roof, the thing heats up the room and makes way too much noise.

[onlinebacon]

Lmao, so you would spend hundreds of dollars for bragging rights?

meh, each to their own, anyways, I guess in the next few months when I scratch and save every penny i get, I will build a new PC, and if it is 64-bit, so be it, if not, then so be it too.

Is it possible to get dual socket 754 motherboards?

Or is it just oppy's

[carlosponti]

Lmao, so you would spend hundreds of dollars for bragging rights?

meh, each to their own, anyways, I guess in the next few months when I scratch and save every penny i get, I will build a new PC, and if it is 64-bit, so be it, if not, then so be it too.

Is it possible to get dual socket 754 motherboards?

Or is it just oppy's

well that was before i got married so the money i made was all mine. i spent probably 900 dollars on my dual cpu system with a ata raid system. ata raid cards are cheap i have one that was 40 bucks and i bought two 120 gb hard drives for 100 bucks each. motherboard was not bad 130 bucks maybe and the processors were athlonMP's at 86 bucks each.

[AlexK]

...Is it possible to get dual socket 754 motherboards?

Or is it just oppy's

I thought AMD has stopped making 754's and are going to stop 939's soon. And all Dual Proc boards were either 939 or 940 for Athlon 64 or Opterons.

Right now the only need I see for 64-bit is when more than 4GB RAM need be addressed and so far the Killer Ap hasn't been released that the general public could take advantage of.

[josolanes]

yeah so! ha ha i think you just answered your own question. i have ran raid in the past it was a fun little thing to do. i also ran dual processor which was another thing that no one really needs to do but the bragging rights were there for the plucking.

Stands up proud

<---owns a dualie system lol


as someone else said, though, the thing heats the room up like crazy!! a couple of minutes after turning it on, there's a noticeable difference in the room temperature...

[Roxoff]

yeah so! ha ha i think you just answered your own question. i have ran raid in the past it was a fun little thing to do. i also ran dual processor which was another thing that no one really needs to do but the bragging rights were there for the plucking.

I never had a raid system (my mailserver wont recognise any disk > 40Gb). But I do have dual processors in my server - and for a very good reason. When I built it, it was the cheapest way to get extra processor cycles, and it's a server, so it does lots of stuff in parallel, so it uses it. Now it's not just a mail server, but runs a Vnc session, web server and Neverwinter Nights game server, so all that parallel umph tends to be quite useful. No Uber Geek here, I'm afraid, just someone with a specific job to do.