Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 15:44:02 11/09/02
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On November 09, 2002 at 15:45:10, Aaron Gordon wrote: Though their math is dead wrong indeed, also their statement is a joke. Saying for example that the I3 is worse than the Opteron. Looks like a big joke statement to me. Those processors aren't even in the same league competing, also parallel performance of the I3 will completely blow away that opteron on the left and right of course. Itanium2 is around $8000 a cpu (you can get it here and there for $7300 now for 1 Ghz, and the 900Mhz version a lot cheaper). I would be pretty amazed if Opteron is near that price class where the Itanium3 will be for sure. >On November 09, 2002 at 12:27:20, Vincent Lejeune wrote: > >> >>http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6156 > >I wouldn't trust what these people say (good or bad). They reported that the >166fsb/333DDR fsb version of the 2600+ was going to be 2133MHz. I emailed them >and told them that it will NOT be 2133MHz but will be 2083MHz with a 12.5x >multiplier. It appears they can't divide. 2133.333~ / 166.666~ = 12.8. This >multiplier doesn't exist and never will exist. > >They kept the article up saying that the 2600+/333 will be 2.133GHz up until the >day the AMD tech docs finally said it was 2083MHz. Hard for me to believe an >article from any hardware page when the editor can't even divide. They should >know enough about what they're writing about otherwise not bother writing it at >all. > >You may say, "You're being too hard on them, it's just a simple mistake".. >Indeed, very SIMPLE. Being a hardware info page you should >know that multipliers for current x86 cpus. For example, 6.5, 7.0, 7.5, 8.0, ... >11.0, 11.5, 12.0, etc. No such thing as 11.3, 12.8, etc. As >I mentioned previously they didn't even change the article when corrected >with the proper information (yes, I told them in a polite manner:). > >Here is the article in question: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6032 > >Btw, AMDZone.com is no better. They made the same mistake. I emailed them about >it and it also went unnoticed. Of course.. the day the tech docs are released, >"2600+/333fsb 2.083GHz released!".. ZZzzz...
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