Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 04:46:51 05/24/01
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On May 23, 2001 at 20:11:35, stuart taylor wrote: >On May 23, 2001 at 17:11:22, Ed Panek wrote: > >>On May 23, 2001 at 16:08:43, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>On May 23, 2001 at 15:20:35, John Dahlem wrote: >>> >>>>When I look at computers to purchase, I always have seen either 1.3 or 1.33 >>>>listed to buy, never both. This leads me to think they are in fact the same >>>>chip, with 1.33 being the more exact clock speed >>> >>>The 1.3Ghz has a 13 multiplier times 100 Mhz bus speed. >>>The 1.33Ghz has a 10 multiplier times 133 Mhz bus speed. >>> >>>The 1.33 is faster, not really becaus of the 0.03 mhz CPU >>>speed advantage, but because of the 33Mhz faster bus. >>> >>>-- >>>GCP >> >> >>This is actually doubled on the FSB to 266 MHZ :) >What is FSB? I'm a bit ignorant. >And will the Palomino be enormously better? Is it for desk-top? and will it be >superior to Intel on all fronts, absolutely? And will the price be reasonable? >S.Taylor the palomino is merely an optimized version of the thunderbird, said to be 5-15% faster than equally clocked thunderbird (these are amd figures, not independently verified so i guess the actual improvement will be closer to 5%) currently released in mobile version but soon will be for desktops as well (including multi-processor versions) if you must buy now got for athlon 1333 (133fsb also referred to as 266 fsb).if you can then wait till the end of the year when you can have a dual palomino processor athlon system (2 x 1.66) as far as chess is concerned,amd will probably remian ahead of intel till at least the end of 2002. if you want to know more <www.anandtech.com> <www.tomshardware.com> <www.sharkyextreme.com> rajen
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