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Thoroughbred... tik tok tik tok

my sentiments exactly!!

I heard mid-march....didn't happen

Now I have read mid-april.....wondering

read also that it will be mid-june......geez..


Already too late coming out........yes I am impatient also 🙂
 
DukeChestnut, I think you may be disappointed to find out that the Thoroughbred will also require beefy cooling solutions. Because of its smaller than Athlon XP die size and thus smaller contact area, you'll need a very efficient heatsink to dissipate the heat.
 
DukeChestnut, I think you may be disappointed to find out that the Thoroughbred will also require beefy cooling solutions. Because of its smaller than Athlon XP die size and thus smaller contact area, you'll need a very efficient heatsink to dissipate the heat.

That may or may not be true. If AMD can get the Vcore down to 1.5 it should significantly reduce the cooling requirements. Tom's Hardware has already hinted that the Palomino will have a 1.5 Vcore but others have suggested 1.6 or 1.65. We'll have to wait and see...
 
There is more than one way to feed a processor the voltage. Who is to say that AMD isn't reducing voltage in some areas of the core while the "setting" for voltage appears to increase? Modern consumer CPUs have used split voltages since the days of the Pentium MMX.
 
By chance will the Thoroughbred fit to the same mobo's as the current Athalon XP's? I want a ASUS A7V333 for my current idea for a new computer with a 2100+ but if the Thoroughbred is coming out any time soon i might just put it off if the wait isnt too painful. If its not the same socket, after the CPU's are released how much choice will there be for different motherboards for something new like this?
 


<< By chance will the Thoroughbred fit to the same mobo's as the current Athalon XP's? I want a ASUS A7V333 for my current idea for a new computer with a 2100+ but if the Thoroughbred is coming out any time soon i might just put it off if the wait isnt too painful. If its not the same socket, after the CPU's are released how much choice will there be for different motherboards for something new like this? >>



No, it will require a new motherboard, the chip is a different size. As for motherboards...who knows.
 
gtprojectsx...WTF?

It's a friggin die shrink. They could shrink the die by 100 times and still put it on the same carrier. Please, if you don't know what you're talking about then shut up. Not trying to be a prick, but this type of disinformation is completely unacceptable. Thoroughbred's are going to be compatible with existing socket A MB's with a BIOS update. This question has been asked 100 times and USUALLY the correct answer is given....not this time tho. Sheesh.
 
GtPrOjEcTX, I think you're talking about Hammer. Thoroughbred is just a die shrink and will still be a socket A. However Hammer (probably to be released sometime mid 2004...j/k hopefully) will have a different interface/socket.

 
While a .13u chip will use less power, the power requirments scale up as the MHz increases but you could probably run a +2600 Thoroughbred on the same wattage the present +2100 XP uses.
One thing for sure - any new AMD chip had better have an Intel like heat spreader incorporated. Their present thermal situation sucks as compaired to Intel.
 


<< While a .13u chip will use less power, the power requirments scale up as the MHz increases but you could probably run a +2600 Thoroughbred on the same wattage the present +2100 XP uses.
One thing for sure - any new AMD chip had better have an Intel like heat spreader incorporated. Their present thermal situation sucks as compaired to Intel. >>



Tru that! And I saw that test of the 1700+ Thoroughbred and it didnt oc well, only to 1900+ (1.47@1.6Ghz) @ 1.75v ...... Will the Northwood be the oc king?

SSXeon

 
I think I read that same review, and it said that the chip was a week 4 or so if i'm correct, I can't find the article or I would check. seeing as this is very early silicon it seems to be too early to base whether or not they will be great overclockers. I would say yes, simply because the palomino's are pretty darn good and I could only see things improving with a die shrink.
 
Read the following quotes from x-bit labs. The chip was originally touted at Comdex last fall now the delays keep rolling in...

According to the newest AMD Plans update, the company is going to lay itself out so that to be able to offer new 0.13micron processors in Q1?02 already. These CPUs should be built on the new Thoroughbred core.

AMD will announce just mobile Thoroughbred based Athlon 4 in the end of March. Desktop Athlon XP with the new 0.13-micron core will appear only in the end of spring/beginning of summer.

Unfortunately, AMD is again falling behind its own schedule revealed before. If at first they were going to launch the first desktop Athlon XP on Thoroughbred core in this quarter, now the announcement has been moved to the next quarter.

As we have already pointed out to you, March is over already and AMD hasn?t yet launched its new 0.13micron Thoroughbred processors. According to our sources, the official launch of Athlon XP (Thoroughbred) will take place only in the second half of June.
 
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