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Subject: Re: AMD .13 CPU's

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 13:53:37 03/19/02

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On March 18, 2002 at 19:36:37, Slater Wold wrote:

>On March 18, 2002 at 18:04:45, Torstein Hall wrote:
>
>>On March 18, 2002 at 10:46:47, Slater Wold wrote:
>>
>>>If anyone gets one of these, tell me how it goes.
>>>
>>>http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~15674,00.html
>>>
>>>Says they will ship at the end of the month (which is next week).
>>
>>Hmm Interesting. But "Thoroughbred" only meens Athlon XP at higher clock speeds
>>at first? Or is it some other enhansments?
>>
>>Torstein
>
>Pretty sure just faster.
>
>They also run a *lot* cooler.  Which is good if you are or are not an
>overclocker.  For the overclockers, it means more mhz with less cooling.  And
>for non-overclockers, it means less heat, and less fan noise.  My mom just
>bought a store bought computer, and that thing sounds like a rocket ship.

I used to run my Athlon TB 1.4@1.5 but it has stopped working at higher than
nominal speed. I guess I have overheated it to much......

Torstein



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