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Originally posted by goBigtime
No reason to get the AMD64 on windows. Windows isn't 64 bit.
Go to google... type in "2.4c overclock"
The new p4 2.4c is one of the most highly overclockable CPU's since the old Celeron 300a.
If you buy good ram you can get it to 3.6ghz with ease.
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that's partly true.
the 2500 _unlocked_ bartons are very overclockable, as well. and, that depends if we're looking for an oc system.
the amd chip has both 32 and 64 bit instructions. granted, it's true power would be much better used in something like freebsd (which does now fully support the amd64 architechture), in benchmarking and such the 64 bit athlons still seem to have a decent edge over the p4.
don't get me wrong, the p4 seems like a nice processor (i haven't used it... i haven't had an intel since my old celery 533a), but amd really has a nice product in the 64.
not only that, but the opteron was good enough for apple ;)