AMD must have listened

[acejj26]

Earlier, I started a thread in which myself, along with several others suggested that AMD enable it so that on startup, the actual designated speed of the athlon be shown and the present clock speed along side. Well, check this out
http://www.tweaktown.com/amd_scoopage/index.shtml#2

Did AMD read our ideas or did they finally use their brains to enable this relatively simple idea?? Either way, if this is true, then no longer will I be pissed at the company I have supported for the last 2 years (I think I was one of the first to buy the K6-2 300 MHz!!!).

I will be very pleased if they enable it and I won't be forced to buy an Intel proc/mobo combo for my friend when I build his computer. I really hope this is true info.

 

[BigToque]

Will the fact that some CPU's have a higher rated core have any effect on this?

IE. Were there not some 700MHz Athlons with a 900MHz core?

 

[acejj26]

I think I know what you're saying here, and I don't know what AMD will do about that. My guess is that the rated core will be a crap shoot just like it is now. They can brand it whatever they want and set the multiplier to whatever they want. It's just that we, the consumer, will get to choose the max speed it can run at, and not AMD.
This is beautiful and it should be a key selling point when they do this. Think, they give the end user the ability to choose what speed to run their processors. And with the headroom in the Athlon design, some may choose to buy a 900 MHz chip with the hopes of overclocking to 1.1 GHz, whereas others may be satisfied at buying a 700 with hopes of running it at 900.

Either way, AMD sells a buttload of processors, the consumer is happy because we get to toy with the processors, and remarkers can't get away with remarking processors and sluffing them off to the public as genuine processors.

This is wonderful, and I really hope AMD (and the BIOS designers) come through on this, because if they do, I know that I, along with a bunch of people in the DIY community will flock to this chip!!!!

 

[Guygye]

If this works out, I guess I won't have to give up on AMD afterall.

 

[Burn]

I think this will be great, I have been hoping for this for a while. It looks like AMD actually cares about us little guys. (overclockers...lol)

 

[acejj26]

If they do this and it puts an end to remarkers (If properly implemented, it will), does anyone think Intel will follow suit???? If so, how big of a change in the industry will that be?!?!?...Intel following AMD's lead. Imagine that!!!

 

[Eli]

Cool...

 

[ragiepew]

acejj26: That has already happmed... (that is intel follow amd's lead)... 3dnow was out a full 3 quarters before intel released SSE...

alin

 

[BiB]

Hmm, if this pans out props to AMD!

 

[jpprod]

Damn, and I just blew $380 for a potentially unoverclockable 800mhz Tbird. Well, that's life

 

[ragiepew]

jpprod-

there may still be a way... hell look at the crazy stuff anand pulled to OC his chip =P.

 

[sandorski]

Now that we have this fine example how AMD works(or seems to), I hope that in the future people are less quick to judgement. Here we have AMD quickly reacting/recanting perhaps, while another <unnamed> corp ignored consumers objection to a little <unnamed> feature that they eventually tried to drop while no one was looking, probably because it was another &quot;innovation&quot; that didn't work as advertised.

 

[A5]

DANG!! It's only on T-Birds.

 

[SSP]

DANG!! It's only on T-Birds.

Better then nothing.


acejj26: That has already happmed... (that is intel follow amd's lead)... 3dnow was out a full 3 quarters before intel released SSE...

MMX was out before both of them (so technically Intel came up with the idea first).