Athlon Goes Green & i845-B Hits PriceWatch...

[GTaudiophile]

From theinquirer.net:

FIRESTONE is looking after us here at the INQwell today, and has sent us note of the "green" Athlon XP 1500, which has just made its debut in electronic stores in Tokyo. The chip is being priced at $127 (¥15,800) yen, according to the blurb and to the pictures. In an FC-PGA Pentium III like packaging, we imagine that this thing runs at a pretty low temperature. You can find the pictures by clicking here.

Pics of MSI's i845-B w/ RAID + USB 2.0 + ATA133; $178 in Japan / $156 in US as MIC845ULTRA-ARU (looks sweet!).

i845-B mobos now available on PriceWatch.

ATi & nVidia investigating QBM.

 

[SyahM]

cool .. i like this one. Much better looking than brownish... is it available in the states?

 

[GTaudiophile]

<< cool .. i like this one. Much better looking than brownish... is it available in the states? >>



Given time, most likely.

 

[LucJoe]

Yea, that definitely is a lot cooler looking, but is it available here? Will it be anytime soon?

And what do they mean about a "FC-PGA Pentium III like packaging"?

 

[NFS4]

What the heck does being green have to do with anything? Why should it even matter? If you run your computer while looking at a pretty green Athlon, you'll have a DEAD Athlon in about 3 seconds.

 

[AGodspeed]

So does "845Pro" mean i845-B?

And what do they mean about a "FC-PGA Pentium III like packaging"?

The Pentium III has the same organic green type packaging that, apparently, the Athlon will adopt.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Anyone find out why AMD is going green? To look like Intel?

 

[JellyBaby]

<< What the heck does being green have to do with anything? Why should it even matter >>

Ask Kermit the Frog just how important being green is. Read that as "very".

Go 845D!

 

[sandorski]

BLAH! Why not red? or black? Or Black with a red racing stripe? or vice versa?

 

[GTaudiophile]

If it spends 99% of its time under an HSF, what difference does color make? Maybe they're considering see-through HSFs...

 

[spazntwich1]

<< If it spends 99% of its time under an HSF, what difference does color make? Maybe they're considering see-through HSFs... >>



Actually, a substance that conducted heat well and was transparent, or even just translucent, would be incredibly cool! Would look cooler and be just as functional as an aluminum case.

 

[Budman]

<< What the heck does being green have to do with anything? Why should it even matter? If you run your computer while looking at a pretty green Athlon, you'll have a DEAD Athlon in about 3 seconds. >>



Maybe he's got a heatsink made of glass & loves to look at his nice green cpu.

 

[smp]

I don't think they chose green. I think that is just so happens that the material they chose to use (probably for heat reasons, or just other packaging issues, read Anand's packaging article, packaging material is very important) is green.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

I don't get how you can make the assumption that this XP will run any cooler than other XPs....

THe packaging color means nothing... its likely hte same packaging, just in a different dye color. IN addition, if it is an improved PCB, remember that this = less heat loss through secondary pathways. In early data, an XP1600 and T-bird 1400 both push roughly the same amount of heat through the heatsink, despite the XP being 9.2W lower. The newer PCB is great at eliminating some of the heat loss of the ceramic PCB T-bird series.


Mike

P.S. Not that i cared waht the inquirer said before, but this gives him even less credence when I read his stuff.... Looking at the Akiba page, the "cpu" itself has the same markings as one of a brown pcb. Gee, what does that mean: Its the same CPU dummy. If it is the same CPU core on brown versus green pcb, then the CPU itself has the same thermal properties.

Now the PCB could be different, and have differnt properties, but htat has nothing to do wtih the SAME CPU CORE runnign cooler just because of a different COLOR pcb.

 

[GTaudiophile]

*Still drooling over that MSI board!!!*

*GTa <--- Gonna get that board!