1.8ghz Athlon is coming/Outperforms Intel 2ghz

[rebldomine]

Off of http://hardocp.com/

ardNews for Tuesday, Sept. 18th, 2001 - Gossip

Kyle:
Good gossip abounds. We have now gotten information from a couple of sources (which kick it up to rumor status worthy of postage) that confirm 1.8GHz samples of AMD Palominos / Athlon4s / AthlonXPs (whatever the hell they will call them) are going into test systems. This is a worthy jump from the current 1.4GHz flagship that can outperform the Pentium4 at 2GHz in specific applications.

 

[DarkMajiq]

Wow... Seeing as how it's tight between the 1.2GHz Athlon MP and the 1.8GHz P4, that 1.8GHz Palomino should lay the smackdown all over Intel

 

[toft-dk]

I would definately want one of those

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

I would be surprised to see the Palomino actually running at 1.8Ghz anytime soon. What they're talking about is a PR rating of 1.8Ghz while the chip runs at 1.53Ghz. It's not surprising that it may beat a 2.0Ghz P4 considering the 1.4Ghz (actual) can beat or hang with the 2.0Ghz part...

 

[bot2600]

One? Give me 2 and an MP board!!! Can you say "4000 blocks a day?"

Bot

 

[Sloth]

I would bet they are talking about PR ratings.

Like was said before the 1.53 will be the 1800+. The current core at 1.4 is close to what a 2.0G P4 so I would expect the new core with the 1.53 to be able to hang with the P4.


S.

 

[Swanny]

Yeah, I bet they are the new PR ratings. I'm looking for a 1.6 pally before I upgrade, but I might have to settle for 1.53 and overclock my way to 1.6

 

[IsOs]

That's probably the case - PR rating of 1.8GHz.

By the way, has anyone actually received & using 1.4GHz Palominos?

 

[damocles]

I'd be extremely surprised to see a 1.8Ghz Tbird seeing that 1.533 GHz has been a whole arriving. A PR rating sounds most likely

Oh well in 6-8 weeks we can see how much 'Seti Smack' a 2.2Ghz P4 Northwood can lay down

 

[pranky]

<< A PR rating sounds most likely >>



That sounds like my next chip....but if memory recalls AMD said they weren't going to go with a PR rating on their chips....they were putting alot of money into ads to prove to the "common folk" that the mHz/gHz doesn't make a difference....maybe they decided otherwise

 

[Assimilator1]

Where did the PR story come from anyway?
I've not seen it myself

 

[Train]

paper launch?