im looking into getting a 1.4 ghz athlon machine pretty soon…anyone know if its REALLY worth the wait of a few months for th palamino (athlon 4) to come out…or should i just submit to the fact that there will always be a faster chip than mine and buy it now?
I’m running 3dmax4 on a 750 TBird / Abit KT7 without any problems. This board has the VIA KT133 chipset. Do you mean to say that 3dmax4 won’t work with AMD chipsets? I don’t think that is true either.
why wouldnt 3dsmax4 run on an amd?..i just read the post after yours…he said it runs
is it just certain chipsets/motherboard combinatin youre talking abot?
Thats Great to hear…I guess I was wrong…Not trying to spread bad vibes about AMDs…MIne Works GREAT!!!..however it was my personal experience on my own thunderbird 1.3 (MSI motherboard > VIA chipset) that MAx 4 wouldn’t install, Max.R3 works fine though…same thing with a friend of mines 1.2 thunderbird…BUt then Im a tech-idiot…in following up this strange problem I searched the web for advice and found a discussion forum which had a post up saying that AMDs didn’t work with R4…Im glad to hear its possible though …maybe I’ll try again.
I have 20 Athlon + machines that are running Max4 just fine.
shawn
Well to answer your questions I would say that it will be worht the wait. The A4’s are going to be made using a new organic chip type and not only will they be faster but they will run a whole lot cooler then the tbirds right now do which run extremely hot. Also there is bound to be some more advancements, not just clock speed. I think you are supposed to be able to run them on the current motherboards, just needed a bios upgrade. but you may want to look into that a little more.
The A4’s are going to be made using a new organic chip type<
what do you mean?? DNA computer?? I thought that the palomino is just an improved athlon with data prefetching.
I don’t know all the details. I don’t think it’s going to be alive computers or anything, just a new organic compound.