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Subject: Re: palomino 1600mhz and palomino 1800mhz listed for preorder

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 14:26:37 09/28/01

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On September 28, 2001 at 17:03:36, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:

>On September 28, 2001 at 16:04:32, K. Burcham wrote:
>
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>>LP CPU-K7-1400-266 AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1400MHz - 266MHz Socket A $117
>>SOON CPU-XP1.6G-266 SOON..! AMD Palomino 1600MHz  $175 $180.41 Link
>>SOON CPU-XP1.8G-266 SOON..! AMD Palomino 1800MHz  $265 $273.20
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>>www.ebccomputers.com
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>>kburcham
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>I don't want to be a spoil-sport but please notice that the 1800Mhz plus model
>for example is in fact running at 1533Mhz. AMD has given the Palominos their
>1500 plus etc. names, and not used the clock speeds of the processors, to move
>away from direct comparisons with Intel processor speeds.
>In spite of this, I think the Palomino (Athlon XP) series will be the best thing
>for chess software and for the great majority of software.
>Their integer performance is simply great. I'm planning to get one of those with
>a VIA KT266A motherboard.
>
>The clock speeds of the chips are:
>XP 1500 - 1.33GHz
>XP 1600 - 1.4GHz
>XP 1700 - 1.47GHz
>XP 1800 - 1.53GHz
>
>Regards,
>Alvaro Cardoso

Marketing is everything.  But we all know, these AMD CPU's are the best for
chess and 99% of the apps we run everyday.

And I was a die-hard Intel guy, until the P4's came out.


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