Been out of the upgrading loop....please help me!

nV2a

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What is the Athlon XP? I need to know EVERYTHING about it....what mobo you need, chipset, pricing, release date, everything.

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IaPuP

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Same mobo as current Athlons.

It is AKA "Palomino" and was previously known as "Corvette"

It is identical to the "AthlonMP" as far as I am aware, except it will probably be released at 1.4-1.6GHZ or so.

I should be announced ummm next week I think and will cost about what Athlons normally cost when they first come out.

They will run cooler than the current TBirds (big bonus) and they will drop into current boards (another big bonus).

They are still running on the 0.18u copper process. Intel has moved (and will be moving) to 0.13 for their new releases.

They have SSE built into the chip (on top of the 3dnow+) and have speculative hardware pre-caching.

Not much else to tell ya!

Eric
 

RedShirt

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The Athlon XP is almost the same as a normal socket-A athlon. AMD made some changes to the Athlon that nets some nice preformance gains.

For example, an Athlon XP 1.2 is almost equivilant to a normal Socket-A athlon 1400.

When coupled with DDR RAM, the XP preforms extremely well (The preformance gain from SDR to DDR is much greater than with the normal Athlon).

AMD is using a rating speed for these processors, so the XP 1800 is really a 1.53 ghz chip. AMD feels they need to rate their processors because people will look at the MHz number and then get a P4 because it is higher.

Almost any Socket-A motherboard will work with the XP. The newer ones will work for sure. Older ones will need a bios update.

Hope this helps.

Oh, and the XP should be showing up any time now.