Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[dacaw]

I think you're mixing up two threads that I was commenting on simultaneously.

The E0 change in the fp unit has nothing to do with reliability.

I pointed out my own experience of early VIA Athlon chipsets as the reason, maybe a reason, why intel did well with the P4 when Win2000 was being adopted. It was certainly sobering for me and I reported that the virtualdub author had knowledge of similar experience. He is now using an Athlon64. Virtualdub is very important to video enthusiasts.

Any improvement in the speed of SSE processing will be very welcome in video, this from my own profiling of video-related code. It looks that the Athlon64 will become the preferred platform for video, especially as 64-bit apps arrive. I see video aas the future of home computing.

So sorry that my comments on two unrelated matters confused. Now when will I get time to port my code (assembler) to AMD64?