Psicomantis said:
But when it arrives to the stores could be a little too expensive, it was created to power servers.
only the opteron. The athlon 64 will have desktop processor pricing as well as a low cost low cache "paris" core, possibly duron64 version.
Optimizing for AMD64 is supposedly fairley easy (ut2003 was ported by one progammer in one week to AMD64) the advantages of n64 emulation on a 64-bit system could be huge.
However... these chips need a 64-bit os to run 64-bit software. If they have a 32-bit os they can only run 32-bit software. Microsoft is developing an unreleased version of windows which is AMD64 compatible, the beta can be obtained now, but the actual commercial verion may not be out till late 2003-early2004. Other than that, linux supports AMD64 already.
In any case an AMD64 port couldnt hurt. The program can be ported on normal 32-bit x86 chips as well, thanks to special software.