Benjamin Gawert wrote:
benjamin schrieb:

Benjamin Gawert
Benjamin i think that ur a comp pro

Well, this is part of my job for over 15yrs now. Besides other work I'm
also responsible for a ****load of workstations (Windows and HP9000),
servers (Windows and HP-UX on PA-RISC and Itanium) and three
supercomputers (HP Superdome Integrity). That probably makes me
something like a "pro" but then I know the business market very well but
I have no clue of what mainboard or cpu is the best for* OVERLOCKING* or
what is the best watercooling or such things, simply because I rarely
have contact with generic do-it-yourself parts at all. So in this case,
I'm probably a "noob" (is that spelled correctly?) also ;-)

I've heard of a lot of softie pros groaning abt their loads of work
(Here). Most of them don't even spend their time with their family.It
seems being a softie pro is after all a bitch. (I'm ready to take the
risks, cause i wanna be one *an animator or a game developer or
somethin' of that sort.*)
& fort the '*oob',
Oh s dear u've spelled it correct.(He he...)

Sorry, but I usually don't give too much info about myself away,
especially details what exactly my job is for for whom I work as my
employee doesn't like that. Most things that might (or might not) be of
interest should already be stored by groups.google.com.

What i exactly meant by personal info was ur age,married or single. or
somethin' of that sort, not the place where u work in,(I'm least
interested in that any way,*But I'm sure interested in the super comp,
u talked abt.Can u explain what u use it for?*)

I live in Germany (Bavaria, to be exactly) where it snows alot in
winter. I hate snow ;-)
yah, icould've guessed that u're from Germany(From the way u write..(&
wat does schrieb mean any way?)

did u say "SNOW"?
Boy i love snow!! cause i've never seen snow. Here even winter seems
like summer (a lot) And the summer....Dont even have to talk abt it.



There are several reasons for the move from 32bit to 64bit. The first
(and probably most important as it's already a limiting factor for
several applications!) is that 64bit systems can address more memory
(4096 MBytes w. 32bit vs 17592186044416 MBytes with 64bit). The 4GB
limit of 32bit systems (which in real life is a 3.5GB limit on PCs due
to the PCI address space) already was a heavy bottleneck for huge
databases over 8 years ago, and it is for more and more applciations
(i.e. HDTV video editing and composing, huge CAD projects, image
processing etc) already. So 64bit is the way to go...

Another benefit of 64bit systems are the wider registers and the higher
precision which is important for i.e. scientific calculations...


The problem is that 64bit is not an advantage for every program or for
games. For the professional market 64bit is standard for over a decade
now, and for the mass market it's just a buzz word. The use for the
mainstream market is extremely limited...

However, modern 64bit processors like Athlon64 also got optimized for
32bit programs which makes them faster than their 32bit-only
predecessors even if you run only 32bit Windows and 32bit programs...



Sure. Mainly single player fps (like HL2, FEAR, GTA etc) and also some
few 3D RPGs like Vampire or GTA ;-)

Dude, way to go!!! I JUS' LOVE GTA Series, right now I'm playing GTA
SA. I guess u've finished it (By the way, Did u enjoy the HOT
coffe....).I have a total collection of the series,(well jus' kick off
those GTA 2,and london edition.....) And My personal favourites are
maxPAyne2,Doom3,NFS MW, POP:TTT(The two thrones )Im playin' it right
now.(I also collect the PoP series...)I think we both have the same
taste.Even i like FPS, but, sometimes i play deathmatches, when invited
by friends.(who turn into enemies when we reach the cyber cafe')


I'm not part of the consumer market (well, how many consumers buy a HP
Dual XEON workstation just for fun?). I have several computers at home,
but if it had been just for fun I probably hadn't spend all that much
money for them and probably had bought something more generic (i.e.
single processor computer). But then, the price for the computer wasn't
that high (HP has very attractive prices for their Dual XEON and Dual
Opteron workstations which made it not much more expensive than building
myself), but the memory upgrade was (4x2GB DDR2 ECC cost an arm and a
leg today)...

Wish u a non snowy day.
rAgAv