Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 01:02:39 09/30/02
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On September 30, 2002 at 00:05:40, Slater Wold wrote: >On September 29, 2002 at 23:59:30, K. Burcham wrote: > >> >> >>if >>2600 is 2133mhz >>then >>2700 is 2166mhz >>and >>2800 is 2233mhz >>but this guy says the 2800 is 10% faster then the 2600 at 2133mhz. >>so this is equivalent to 2346mhz. >>we will see. I will believe it when it happens. >> >> >> >>September 27, 2002 >>AMD to Unveil Two Athlon Chips Next Week >> >> >>By Ken Popovich >> >> >>Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will roll out its fastest processors yet, the Athlon >>XP 2800+ and 2700+, during a news conference on Tuesday, according to sources >>close to the company. >>The new chips, in addition to running at higher frequencies than the current >>top-of-the-line 2600+, will feature a 333MHz front side bus, which should enable >>the 2800+ to perform about 10 percent faster than the 2600+ with its 266MHz >>front side bus. > >I got the annoucement in August that the 2600s would be coming out soon. It is >now September and they are barely rolling out. (As in, several vendors who are >selling them don't actually have them yet.) AMD is horrible about this. >Announce a chip, and 3 months later it hits the streets. > >I was planning on going the 2x2600 route, I even bought a new mobo. But after >waiting too long, I decided to spend the money elsewhere. > >Kind of glad now too. Maybe in 3 months I will be able to get my hands on a >2800. Maybe. this is true for all manufacturers obviously, but AMD also announced a year or 6 ago that the K7 would go up to 8 processors. Yet it took them years to develop something dual and they perhaps even had big help from Alpha there otherwise they wouldn't have managed i bet. Yet this 333Mhz thing will boost crafty's hardware parallel speedup bigtime. For the other programs it won't matter that much, really. Obviously it needs a new mainboard + chipset too, to run dual then at 333Mhz. Which i doubt. Best regards, Vincent
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