In the past year clock speeds on athlon's have gone down 50mhz

[touchmyichi]

Not that its that big of a deal where preformance is concerned, its just funny that in the past year amd hasn't gained clock speed but lost it . Last year's athlon 2800+ was at 2.25 ghz and now the 3200+ xp and 64 are at 2.2 ghz.

 

[Megatomic]

And the L2 cache went from 256KB to 512KB. I'll take the extra cache and o/c to get the MHz I want. Win-win for me.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: touchmyichi
Not that its that big of a deal where preformance is concerned, its just funny that in the past year amd hasn't gained clock speed but lost it . Last year's athlon 2800+ was at 2.25 ghz and now the 3200+ xp and 64 are at 2.2 ghz.

But performance has increased dramatically, especially with the A64.

 

[0roo0roo]

last year i bought a 2000+ retail + k7s5a for 59 dollars. it ran at 1666mhz and no more.
this year i bought a 1800+ retail + k7s5apro for 69 dollars. it runs at 2.4ghz

 

[DragonFire]

1800+ at 2.4Ghz WOW! I cant even get my 2400+ to run at 2.4 Ghz 100% stable tho I think its my motherboard that wont let me....

I would have to think that if AMD were to go lame and use longer pipelines like Intel, they would be at 4Ghz already. Then again if Intel were to use shorter pipelines like AMD, they wouldnt be at 3.2Ghz yet.

 

[Mingon]

Not strictly true AMD has just released limited supplies of 2.333ghz 3200+ processors to HP

 

[BlvdKing]

AMD and Intel have focused on the platform their CPU's run on to increase overall performance. It's about time too - next up we have a replacement for the golden oldie the PCI bus....

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: DragonFire
1800+ at 2.4Ghz WOW! I cant even get my 2400+ to run at 2.4 Ghz 100% stable tho I think its my motherboard that wont let me....

I would have to think that if AMD were to go lame and use longer pipelines like Intel, they would be at 4Ghz already. Then again if Intel were to use shorter pipelines like AMD, they wouldnt be at 3.2Ghz yet.

2.4 is nothin these days... the newer ones hit 2.6+ just check overclockers.com forums

 

[DAPUNISHER]

In the past year clock speeds on athlon's have gone down 50mhz

There will be mass panic in the streets! It'll be worse than "I can't taste my beer!"