Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 05:30:02 05/11/01
Athlon Dual Mobos: 1.8GHz A Gogo ! - Lars - 11-05-2001 - 2001-05-10 13:15:50 top Mike Magee over at The Inquirer has posted a scoop story.....which will make your mouth water.....and i'm not refering to the Guinness Beer he keeps mentioning (would love a pint right now m8 !)....i'm talking about Dual Palomino's.......running at 1.8GHz each !!!! :) The Athlon H-Series includes SSE+, which may or may not be called 3DNow! Pro, and extensions to the instruction set include Intel Screaming Sindie 1 and 2 single and double precision floating point instructions. AMD will continue to support 3DNow, even in Hammer, when it arrives. Developers will be able to choose between AMD and Intel 3D instruction in either Screaming Sindies or 3DNow, but the H Series of Athlons can run with fully optimised code. Preliminary benchmarketing seen by The Inquirer show an 80 per cent boost in Photoshop 5.5 and 6.0 lighting effects, and the 3D StudioMax Heidi Renderer is something like 34 per cent up. This AMD Athlon Palomino just keeps getting better and better...it's already rumoured to have an enhanced Branch Prediction Unit (BPU) and hardware prefetch......now the Athlon H-Series mentioned here.....seems to be server-version of the Palomino.....and with BOTH 3DNow! and SSE......AMD may finally have a real Intel-killer !! :) UPDATE: As you may have seen elsewhere.....a company called RackSaver Inc....is already taking (pre-)orders for a Dual Palomino server.....based on Tyan's K7 Thunder S2462 motherboard.....and Dual 1.2GHz Palomino's....the price is around $2500....you can pre-order one right here !
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