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T'Bred Out in June?

Banana

Diamond Member
According to this source:

X-Bit Labs

The Thoroughbred will be out in late June, and AMD may release one more Palomino XP to fill the time gap (XP 2200+). Anyone vouch for this site?

Should I wait 3 more months or buy Palomino now?? Arrgh.

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I think by that time the Hammer series of processors will only be a few short months away. I would hold out unless you already have an Athlon DDR motherboard. The Hammers are supposed to be approximately 30% faster than Athlon XP in a 32 bit environment on a clock per clock basis.
 
What happened to the April release date?? And wasn't the April date a push-back from a scheduled Oct 2001 release? I wonder if this indicates they're having yield problems or processor errors or what.
 
I was very disappointed to hear about another Thoroughbred delay. As I already have a DDR motherboard, I was hoping to upgrade to it. And it's not just the Thoroughbred line that's apparently lagging. AMD will have a problem countering the new P4-based Celerons that will start at 1.7Ghz. From what I've read the next Duron will not have any architectural enhancements besides a die shrink. Well, at least Jerry is leaving.. 🙂
 
Yeah, I have to build my new computer in June (that's the latest I can wait), so if the Thoroughbreds aren't out by then I'm going have to go with a P4 2.0A or 2.2. 🙁
 
Thanks for the link, DivideBYZero. After reading that article, I came out unimpressed with the lackluster capabilities of the sample (in terms of performance and overclocking potential). Why couldn't AMD add more cache or at least a heat spreader on that thing? The spreader is even more necessary now that the cpu slug is a third smaller.
 
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