That is good!!! I like the look of the lower vcore though it only represents a drop of .15 from the xp and tbird while the p4 drop from .18 willamette to the .13 northwood was 1.85v to 1.5v....
I wonder what kind of temps are going to be expected....
Also, I would have expected this since xp's of the 2100+ .18 micron were already doing 1.733ghz at default and many seem to get it to 1.8ghz air cooled anyways. So if the first .13 micron didn't come out and offer what's mentioned above it wouldn't bode well for AMD and the ability of this chip to ramp until hammer gets here....In that sense it will be a short lived product I guess, but it will likely need to get the xp line to the 2ghz line to stay competitive with the p4 line which should be around 2.8ghz by end of summer.
Also since the thoroughbred offers no architecture or performance enhancements, just merely a die shrink and hopefully some temperature alleviation, it should be easily to figure projected performance of thoroughbred up to 2ghz....It is likley a xp 2400-2500+ (1933-2000mhz respectively) will be needed to compete with the 2.8ghz p4's (533fsb) conservatively....
I think the thoroughbred's goal is merely to keep it close while amd tries to one up intel with the hammer....
