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Subject: Re: Athlon 1,1GHz

Author: Wayne Lowrance

Date: 08:26:10 02/11/00

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On February 10, 2000 at 12:02:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 10, 2000 at 03:01:52, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>
>>On February 09, 2000 at 21:13:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On February 09, 2000 at 18:18:24, Paulo Soares wrote:
>>>
>>>>I think that shortly we will enter in the Gigahertz era.
>>>>AMD announced on Monday, 02-07 Athlon 1.1GHz.
>>>>
>>>>http://www.amd.com/news/prodpr/20054.html
>>>>
>>>>Paulo Soares, from Brazil
>>>
>>>
>>>Lonnie has been running a 1gigahertz athlon (Kryotech I think) for a month
>>>or so.  Nothing super-remarkable...
>>
>>A quick blink on that statement, exactly what do you mean no remarkable ? .
One
>>chip the equal of your for xeons Bob. ! And on the technology goes
>
>
>His cpu runs the crafty benchmark at a slightly faster NPS than my quad
>xeon.  Partly due to GCC vs MSVC of course.  But then factoring in the 25%
>loss I get due to SMP overhead, his machine is a good bit faster.  My comment
>was that we already have 1ghz athlons running, so a 1.1 ghz chip won't be a
>huge quantum leap of any kind.

Yes, ok, however I was not aware that they had 1 gig running without super
cooling.
Thank you
Wayne




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