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yourbankrupty, re Athlon-64 advantages

You missed the most important advantage of Athlon-64. It provides a 64-bit binary architecture that should be stable for a decade or more. A good number of us will never need a different architecture. Sure, more RAM, higher performance disks, higher clock speeds, etc., but a 64 bit address space should suffice for this half of the century.