My new NVIDIA FX-5900 Ultra/256 MB DDR super card!

[ScottGant]

All I want to know is where are you getting a 4Ghz Pentium 4?

Also, had the 5900/256 for 1 week before switching to the ATI 9800 pro/256. To each their own I guess. I just like the "look and feel" of ATI's mipmaps. It's hard to explain, but speedwise I don't see any difference and the 5900 was about 5 frames faster...in other words no difference.

But what about the 4Ghz pentium? Is this a test version?

[t00fri]

All I want to know is where are you getting a 4Ghz Pentium 4?

Also, had the 5900/256 for 1 week before switching to the ATI 9800 pro/256. To each their own I guess. I just like the "look and feel" of ATI's mipmaps. It's hard to explain, but speedwise I don't see any difference and the 5900 was about 5 frames faster...in other words no difference.

But what about the 4Ghz pentium? Is this a test version?

For the Celestia developers, NVIDIA is much preferable as well as more generally for cross-platform "activities": it's the unified driver issue for Windows and Linux that makes the decision in my case. ATI drivers are also often more buggy than NVIDIA's.

Of course, the 4 Ghz P4 does not yet exist;-) and will presumably be never built. The present 3.2 Ghz is presumably the highest clock frequency in P4 architecture.

Already 3.4 Ghz will be a P5 and hopfully coming out soon.

I just wanted to indicate in my earlier post that I shall buy a new machine when the CPU clock ist at about 4 Ghz, not (much) earlier. Here also the issue of die size and thus the heat dissipation will be a decisive factor. The 3 Ghz P4's are really "hot brothers" for example...

Bye Fridger

[Christophe]

I just wanted to indicate in my earlier post that I shall buy a new machine when the CPU clock ist at about 4 Ghz, not (much) earlier. Here also the issue of die size and thus the heat dissipation will be a decisive factor. The 3 Ghz P4's are really "hot brothers" for example...

Don't you want to get a 64 bit Hammer? For memory hungry uses that should be better than a P4.

[t00fri]

I just wanted to indicate in my earlier post that I shall buy a new machine when the CPU clock ist at about 4 Ghz, not (much) earlier. Here also the issue of die size and thus the heat dissipation will be a decisive factor. The 3 Ghz P4's are really "hot brothers" for example...

Don't you want to get a 64 bit Hammer? For memory hungry uses that should be better than a P4.

Once I can convince myself that /all/ the software I have to rely on --notably in my professional work-- runs well/stable with a 64 bit CPU, definitely!

But I never consider buying AMD for a number of reasons that are not so important here.

Bye Fridger

[Christophe]

Well, the great advantage of Hammer is that it stays fully i386 compliant while running a 64bit OS. But I agree, it has yet to prove itself.

[Paddywak]

If you want a truly awesome Celestial experience get yourselves a Matrox Parhelia Graphics Card ... and 3 monitors.

I run Celestia at 3840 x 1024 across 3 x 19" TFT's on a 2.6 P4 with 1 gig of ram.

It runs smooth and sweet with whatever options I have on or off and with some add-on high resolution textures it is truly GOBSMACKING