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Is it a Good Time to Get an Athlon64?

Posted by Cliff on from the short-and-sweet dept.

City_Idiot asks: "I'm looking to upgrade my current P4 2.4Ghz and i'm giving serious thought to a Athlon64 3200+. The tests look good, and it gives a 3Ghz P4 a good run for its money but is the technology ready for end users?"

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  1. Re:Re:OS by KarateBob · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Heh, I've grabbed a few beta-Service Packs from alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.ms-beta and saw the 64-bit (2003 edition) of some stuff when i was browsing the other day.

    Basically, Usenet is available, in some form, to everyone, but, by saying "just anyone" i assume you're referring to a link on a webpage the average Joe can click. So, unless you would call a ".torrent" a means of everybody accessing the illegal beta (i don't) then I guess it's currently only available for the small % of educated usenet/.torrent/IRC users who actually have the hardware to run it.

    But yea, stealing microsoft products is about as bad as masturbating to photoshopped pictures of Hilary Duff. Morally wrong? no. Ethically wrong? ....Maybe

    In closing, if you had the hardware, and you really wanted, or needed Win64-03, then im sure you would figure out how to find it on usenet/torrent/irc.

    -Gotta rest to see ROTK again tomorrow.
    -KayBo