You Should Be A Model

Well, this tells me AMD has dropped the ball. Where the smeg are those 1.5 and 1.6 Palamino processors I heard about in JUNE??

And we're all gonna have to choose between the lesser of two evils: A P4 with either VIA DDR Chipset, or RAMBUS. (one is spend lots of time upgrading 4in1 drivers to get some stability, the other is spend lots of money.)

Next AMD chip model:

Athlon 1337

It would sell to all the kiddies.

Here's the problem.

You're Jim. You know nothing about computers. You want to get your son, tommy, the biggest, baddess ass computer you can for college, as well as a nice computer for your family.

You go to computer store x (dell/local store/whoever).

You see:
AMD 1.0
AMD 1.4
P4 1.5
P4 2.0

You think "well damn, I'll get the 2.0 for tommy and the slower 1.5 for home! Heck, intel's slowest is faster than amd's fastest!" ( i know there's 1.3).

You buy them.

You don't go to tomshardware.com/anandtech/hardocp.
You don't spend weeks analizing benchmarks, ram prices, or the company ethics of rambus.

You go, spend maybe a day or two deciding, and get the best deal on the 'best' computer.

We are NOT the majority. THat's why disney games sell and hardcore games don't.
Just telling people that "oh, the 1.4 is as fast as the 2.0!" is like trying to explain power/weight to a non car enthousiast.

Jim buys a car, wants a big one, so he gets one with a high HP rating.

Etc...

Its only faster in some benchmarks, mostly synthetic. a 1.4 amd and a 1.4 intel each win a share of the benchmarks, but AMD is faster? How so?


Thank you for riding the bandwagon, please catch the next one entitled XP.

I'm the model of a modern major general?

or something...

What a complete joke.

-The SAMe

AMD must really be worried if they are considering this tripe.

steve went to handsome boy modeling school with chris elliot

i am all mighty.

AMD is f|_|cked cause Intel knows that most people who purchase PCs are f|_|cking morons, who know nothing about what makes a PC work. so all intel has to do is say "hey we have a higher number so buy our part you f|_|cking mindless sheep" (or something to that effect) and AMD will hurt for this, because of all the idoits out there that will think "well my friend's penis is 3 inches and mine is 4 inches, so higher numbers must mean good".

we need to thin this gene pool

if i was AMD, i would pull an apple and just show a bunch of benchmarks that show AMD beating the intel chips on TV. that will make people think twice when they go buy a computer more than model number

i think amd should just skip he 2ghz and go striaght to 3 ghz and be much faster than intel and have higher mghz , course they would have to sell their chips at like $500 like intel does, but they would be a buttload faster than intels chips for the same price

isn't this what apple does?

People sitll use that AMD crap?

To be sure to be sure ............We should call this one fucking fast and this one real fucking fat and this one man thats fucking fast and this one kinda fucking fast and this one .......

i love my new 1.4ghz athlon!! DON'T CALL IT A 1600!! :(

Hows about replacing Mhz with Instructions Per Second? Go with what matters.

http://news.excite.com/news/zd/010829/11/amd-charges-intel

in all i care about (quake) intel is much speedier than a comparably clocked athlon. plus who in hell wants a crapola via chipset =[

All the PR rating did for Cyrix was make it complacent -- "We just released a Cyrix MX PR-350+, so who cares about R&D and ramping clock speeds, even though it only runs at 266?"

Isn't it funny how AMD and Apple are doing exactly the same thing - trying to educate users that Mhz isn't everything. They're both going about it slightly different ways (Apple is going the education route, AMD is going the don't show the Mhz route) but if they keep this up the public might just realise how unrealistic Mhz ratings are.

Which is why an AMD beats a P4 in some benchmarks, and so does an Apple G4 (and I'm not just talking Photoshop benchmarks, I'm talking general programming tests).

And please don't come in with your "Intel/AMD chips are better than Apple's!!!!" rubbish, I'm not in the mood (or vice-versa).

I think it would be better if AMD just sent out a industry wide comparison based on benchmarks so customers could know there is a difference.

AMD needs to advertise, hell a tv commercial would do them lots of good.

that's funny, didn't i post exactly this in the small AMD article that was up earlier, which is now gone?

this is the stupidest idea ever, i would sue

Actually, this might be a good idea, but not by itself. Honda doesn't sell the Accord under 16 different model designations, because the market doesn't need that. Nor does the market need processors available from 600MHz to 1400MHz to be available in 50MHz or 100MHz increments. No one, and I mean NO ONE can sit down at two computers, one 100MHz faster than the other, and tell the difference. If the chip makers want to go to model designations, they should make each model meaningfully different from the other. Pick 2 or 3 speed points for each the Duron and Athlon, price them accordingly, and run with it.

MoNsTeR

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

marketing people must be shot

So the PR rating is returning eh?

Weirdness©©©

All CPUs should be called "Fast Enough" these days...who gives a fuck if its 1.4 versus 1.7 ghz?

Um.. why don't they just use results from some benchmark and label the chips that way?
like in mips or something.

How about they start measuring in Kilohertz. That will REALLY blow away intel's puny Megahertz figures!

Anyone buying a new PC in this day in age shouldn't car if its 800 MHz or 2 GHz...as they couldn't tell the difference in real world apss other then games and 3d stuff

model numbers can suck me.

I dont like this idea. It didnt work for Cyrix, I dont see why it should work now (of course the cyrix products were shit). I think I'd prefer AMD to just try to educate a larger percentage of the popualtion that more is not neccessarily better. Take out fullpage ads in PCMagazine, PcWeek, PC World, newspapers etc. Get the msg across on television.

Alternatively they can just make sure that their next gen chip is as scaleable as can be and bite the bullet when it comes to the clockspeed disadvantage that the athlon currently experiences.

How about the consumer researched computers before they buy them...BAD NEWS FOR INTEL if they did ;)

I've got a better idea, first have a unique model name (Athlon) followed by the 3dmark performance on some industry standard configuration.

Athlon (model) 4589 (3dmark score) MKI (configuration).

How good would that be??? (pretty bad).

Oh, not again. Cyrix had all that nonsense with the 6x86 chip back in the day (man, just thinking about those chips makes me cringe). I didn't like the idea then, and I still don't like it.

i'm a new, i'm a new new model.