Why arent there Barton 4000+'s available?

[dxkj]

All the benchmarks I see the P4 3ghz whipping the barton 3000+ (which is only 2.17ghz). If a good number of people get a stable overclock with air cooling to 2.3 or 2.4 or 2.5ghz, why arent they available? It would be at least a little nice to go out on a higher note .

 

[4x4expy]

Originally posted by: dxkj
All the benchmarks I see the P4 3ghz whipping the barton 3000+ (which is only 2.17ghz). If a good number of people get a stable overclock with air cooling to 2.3 or 2.4 or 2.5ghz, why arent they available? It would be at least a little nice to go out on a higher note .

According to all that I have read, the 3200+ is the last of the Athlon XP line. AMD is focusing on the Athlon 64 CPU development and production. I guess only time will tell how the Athlon64 vs Prescott/Tejas battles will play out, though I don't really see AMD faring well...

 

[judasmachine]

I think AMD will continue the AthlonXP as a value solution. I figure they will prolly cut the 512kb cache down to 256k again, as it has proven problematic as it is. I think this is the Thorton core, right? But yeah as far as releasing a new CPU every other month forget it, as the main focus will be the Athlon64.

 

[SickBeast]

Ahh, the monkey prophecies...

I personally see 64-bit computing as more important than DDR-2 support, but this is only my opinion on the matter. Hyperthreading doesn't do very much to speed up games and other applications. Multitasking has been built-in to windows since I can remember. If they can put 2 cores onto a single wafer, THEN I would be highly interested in the platform. Add to this that DDR2 will cost more than DDR1, and the fact that the athlon64 will have the integrated memory controller, and I think I'll be sold on the platform. For my CAD-intensive work I can't see the mighty intel beating what AMD can come up with. Sorry if I sound like a fanboy.