Intel 2.8Ghz Released

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• that dude has my chair : beefmarine
• He's using the 533MHZ bus to communicate telepathicly to the camera. : *metal*
• Hi, I'm a single white male computer hardware reviewer looking for a special lady to share hot se><0r wit... : tunis5000
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  He's mking a statement that he is not going to playthe games that Anand, Tom, and Kyle are currently doin : indeego
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    TR has only increased my dediction to their site and content (top notch, no fucking bullshit). With t... : Toraz Chryx
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      I don't take console/port wars or trolls serious. Anyone that really holds sides with true honesty can't : indeego
      • ... I do? the thing is, TR posting clone verses Mac stuff on the frontpage brings _all_ the zealots ou... : Toraz Chryx
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        this is just a hunch, but just maybe a person who is shopping for a pc gives a shit about which platform ... : DoubleAnal
        • perhaps. so.... No reason to have a zealotrous attitude about it while doing it. : indeego
      • I give a shit which platform is better, but I don't stick with a platform even when it ISN'T better which... : Old_Fart

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  That would be nice. :D : *metal*
  • Is he planning on running it in software mode? :D : jrock
• Of course it runs fine with a 9700 and the current processors. : wykd

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  I think CPU's have a 3 week "top of the charts" lifespan. Especially around here. :D : *metal*
  • So true, so true . : brutal
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  the 2.53 was on top for quite a while : Rageaholic
  • In the older days, they seemed to last forever. The 486/66 was on top for months, as was the Pentium-90 a... : bostrov

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  the 2600+ will probably be cheaper on the street... And the Athlon has a floating point unit that does... : Toraz Chryx
  • +1 fire attack : RiNgMaStEr
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    the mrsp for a athlon 2600 xp costs about $280, while the 2.53 is $250. It will not be lower than the p4 ... : Rageaholic
    • MSRP is followed how often exactly? besides that, the 2600+ was marked at that pricepoint before the P : Toraz Chryx
• AMD is definitely under the gun. They are fighting to remain competitive with intel. They need Hamme... : johnny rotten
• All Im saying is that the 2.53 has been out for a few months now, and their price have dropped to very re... : Rageaholic

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• HI Blackguy. : brutal

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  no way, is that real? : Turd Ferguson
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    Seeing some of the Dell and Hewlett Packard default SLOWASHELL shipping configurations, I can believe it,... : Toraz Chryx
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      guess im going to have to make a trip to my moms house once she gets her dell. : Turd Ferguson
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        Dude, you let her buy a Dell? I saw a "dude your getting a dell" advert for the first time today.. OMF : Toraz Chryx
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          WHAT? You mean you are watching TV now?? : MarksmanX
          • It was during the commercial break in the middle of M*A*S*H >:( : Toraz Chryx

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  I play at 1600x1200x32 in most games and I run flawlessly ;) it helps to have a GeForce 4 Ti4200 as we... : SatansFist
  • Jesus now I know what I stick with 1280 x 1024. At 1600 x 1200 85Hz that fucking flickering on a white ba... : MarksmanX
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    I play at 160x120@32bit in most games and I get slowdowns. >:( : Toraz Chryx
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      160x120? Jesus dude what card are you using? : MarksmanX
      • I was kinda joking/parody posting, but Tenebrae makes my Geforce 1 SDR and Geforce 2MX it's bitch at any : Toraz Chryx

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  mmkay http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/whitepapers/power4.html \m/ PowerPC-AS ... : Toraz Chryx
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    They've made a PowerPC chip that doesn't suck? When did that happen? (Seriously.) : nudel
    • PowerPC chips don't suck MOTOROLA PowerPC chips suck. (the big-iron POWER4 isn't a POWER chip, but a ... : Toraz Chryx
    • as for when it happened, October 2001.. IBM have a cut down (die size wise) POWER4 derived chip which ... : Toraz Chryx

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• Claw and Sledge will be marketed across the whole spectrum the AthlonXP will be shuffled into the market : Toraz Chryx

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  Ummm, Intel's advantage is that it's easier to make a chip with a higher clock speed to make up for effic... : boughton supreme
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    the problem with Intels clock > IPC approach is that it widens the number of clock cycles going to waste ... : Toraz Chryx
    • screw you and your extensive knowledge :P : boughton supreme
    • yes it does, anything really cpu intensive without SSE2 optimizations makes my P4 machine feel sluggish c... : Old_Fart
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      Except Intel is currently the fastest and the cooler of the two (despite the higher clock). I'm sure AMD ... : nudel
      • Right now the Athlon is faster than the P4 for stuff I do (gaming aside) Northwood still sucks as far ... : Toraz Chryx
• Im tired of the saying "it takes so many mhz for intel to beat amd" IMO ppl who say that still slant thei... : Rageaholic