Somehow i feel that you'll more talk than reality here...
firstly the 486 processor clocks were never able to achieve 166Mhz, infact the fastest they could go was 120Mhz (with the Dx/4) - the 133Mhz was the 586 series which were kinda AMDs bridge to Pentiums whilst they caught up technology wise.
Also unlike you i know what market my games are going to hit - and its not the wealthy idiots who splat out cash on anything that is released but most likely college students and school kids ... for them they'd consider half of what people here use as a damn'd fast machine.
the Chip isn't called the Opteron, but the Optiron - and it isn't a 64bit processor but a 128/256bit hybrid processor designed to directly compete against the Pentium Xeon. To the business world it was released 12months ago starting at 2.5Ghz, but the lastest incarnation is 4.12Ghz.
There has been a public sector release of this chip called the AlthonMP - which has a complete level taken out making it cheaper but still faster than its Pentium4 counterpart.
The Pentium5 (which is to be named the Itainium, which no doubt most of you will know about by now) and Althon2 are aim'd for 4th Quarter this year.
Both of which are native 256Bit Processors, which is a huge improvement over the current 64bit Core with 128Bit Floating Point Extensions.
The information on which is openly available on the AMD and Intel Developer sites.
Both processors are going to start at 2Ghz and are to be the standard upto the 10Ghz era.
lastly i'm pretty sure that part of the DBDN Agreement which didn't settle right with me was the fact you were not allowed to divulge any information on any DarkBasic/Affliate Software developed within, WITHOUT the express say so of the DarkBasic Team.
and unless you didn't know, the patches are subsiquents of the DarkBasic Professional - and therefore included as part of the Beta agreement because they're still beta versions rather than public releases.
id suggest rather than having your head in the clouds about what you read from third parties you grab your information from the companies themselves, and carefully read agreements your about to sign and understand these said implications. people have time and time again noted about how information is released without the teams permission on these "enhancements" ... and it does break the agreement - your just lucky the team doesn't decide to revoke your subscription.
Tsu'va Oni Ni Jyuuko Fiori Sei Tau!
One block follows the suit ... the whole suit of blocks is the path ... what have you found?
