Athlon 64 2600+ on the way?

[Zimdesign]

I saw this over at AMDZone

According to this article, AMD is planning on releasing an Athlon 64 2600+. Looks like it will be clocked at 1.66Ghz and have 512k of L2 cache. What are your thoughts on this?

 

[Dman877]

Depends on the price, could be a good deal though for ~100$ . 3000+ = 2.0, 2800+ = 1.8, 2600+ = 1.66.... whats up with that? Something funny with A64 scaling maybe?

 

[Bar81]

You're dreaming if you think it'll hit at $100. This will be a $140-150 product. The rumor is it will be clocked at 1.60Ghz in line with the rest of the range.

 

[Zimdesign]

1.6Ghz would probably be more logical... for the price I would guess around 150$ considering the prices of the other A64s just above it in the product line. Does anyone have any idea when this CPU will be released in retail form?

 

[Avalon]

I suppose if you could overclock it to 2ghz, it'd be a very nice deal for about $150.

 

[Hyperlite]

why bother spending $150 on 2Ghz....just do the tried and true XP-M 2500+ oc'ed to 2.5Ghz.


$80

 

[coolred]

why bother spending $150 on 2Ghz....just do the tried and true XP-M 2500+ oc'ed to 2.5Ghz.

Cause for some people its not about all out speed, others want to be ready for 64bit if it ever arrives. Plus I just like the huge feature lists on the 64bit boards myself. But I must admit the cheapness of the mobile XP is still very tempting.

 

[gwag]

ready for 64 bit? you mean have a lot of ram or something, or do you mean be ready for the 64 bit slowdown?

 

[klah]

At idle and under low cpu-usage the A64 only uses 22W.

 

[coolred]

Any new info on this things release?

 

[Algere]

Originally posted by: klah
At idle and under low cpu-usage the A64 only uses 22W.

Mobile?

 

[coolred]

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Originally posted by: klah
At idle and under low cpu-usage the A64 only uses 22W.
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Mobile?

With cool and quiet maybe?

 

[coolred]

Link

Well according to the register the 2600+ has already been released and may not even make it to the US market.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: gwag
ready for 64 bit? you mean have a lot of ram or something, or do you mean be ready for the 64 bit slowdown?

Actually apparently code will need to have a trigger written in to start 64-Bit mode. So some have presumed that more cache is better so this isn't an impact so much (if it proves to be at all).