AMD is releasing Thoroughbred on 3/20!!!

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According to Inquirer...

 

[toft-dk]

That's a processor that i would love to put in to boost my teams Seti effort

 

[jiffylube1024]

And we all know how accurate the Inquirer is, LOL

 

[johndoe52]

<< And we all know how accurate the Inquirer is, LOL >>


If not the 20th does someone have a better guess?

 

[Lithium381]

Thoroghbred.....that's so tight, i'm planning to upgrade soon, and most of the time after a release of a new chip, the otherones fall....so i'll just grab one once they go down, super sweet

 

[Swanny]

All right! Now all I have to do is convince my dad he needs to upgrade by buying my XP 1900+ and then get myself a new T-bred

Somehow I don't think he'd spring for that, though

 

[johndoe52]

Pawn it off to one of your friends. That's what I've done a couple of times.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Too bad the inquirer was wrong... they posted a retraction today...

May looks more likely for THoroughbred, albeit it still a wait and see since it appears that, despite hte smaller contact surface and .13 micron, Tbred will only be 10% or so cooler than an XP chip.... but taking into account contact size, the Tbred is 1.5x hotter per sq mm than the xp's are.



Mike

 

[JaguarSavage]

What are the differences between the XP and the Tbred? besides the lower micron die size??

 

[Lithium381]

<< What are the differences between the XP and the Tbred? besides the lower micron die size?? >>



well that SHOULD allow them to go higher on the clockspeed......don't they have different onboard cache too?

 

[Mikewarrior2]

all indications(from AMD) are that Tbred's will be 133fsb/256k l2 cache. An XP with a Die shrink, and not much(if anything) else.



Mike

 

[meson2000]

There will be 2 minor architectural changes to the core (don't know what they are yet though).
There will be no increase in FSB or L2 cache size. Just a die shrink to .13micron.
I believe I got this info from ACES hardware.