10 New AMD CPUs

hahaahha Holesinswiss.

TargetBoy: don't get confused with other Lex's & myself. I usually make a comment based on the topic at hand, or replying to someone else.

Thanks!

-Lex

p.s. my car just hit 5k miles

Ya know whats the funniest thing about these type of message boards. You get people who randomly give out information without being asked.

One person just feels the urge to tell everyone that the Thunderbird has ondie cache so it runs at CPU speed.

Others love to tell us that they bought a new computer and what they used to have. The best part about this is no one asked them. Just random information from people for no reason at all. I love it

Thanks!

-Lex

20-25%? Man, if that's the case, I'd gladly go for a 750 MHz T-Bird Athlon over an 800 MHz standard one (for example). Might save some money and still get a better chip in the process. I just hope they don't compensate with extra-expensive motherboards... I remember how the earlier days of Athlons wiped out the cost advantage with boards that cost a lot more.

FROM ANANDTECH:

"It's getting very close to Duron/Thunderbird time, and AMD is going to get a nice boost to the Athlon's ego as the performance throne will once again shift over into AMD's arena. Between the Athlon (Thunderbird), Athlon (K75) and Duron, it is going to be very difficult to recommend the Pentium III and/or Celeron over the next few months. Intel's only hope between now and the release of the Willamette is that the Pentium III and Celeron parts are priced lower than their TBird/Duron counterparts or that the Thunderbird has motherboard/platform issues; the latter doesn't seem likely since the design is relatively similar to the current Athlon design with a few exceptions regarding timings."

The NDA isn't up yet but the hints sure sound good!

God damnit.. damn web browser locks up and I get stuck with a double post.. grrrr...

54, The original Athlon has cache running at a fraction of the core CPU speed. Both the Duron and Thunderbird cache run at full speed. So theoretically, they're the same. However, we all saw the stunt Intel pulled with the Celeron II (I still believe the cache is latency crippled, even though Intel denies it) so you never know until the benchmarks hit the street.

48, if that's the case, then it wouldn't really make much sense to buy a Duron. Check the prices on the 700 mhz Athlons and then compare that with the Duron. I *believe* the difference is around $50 or so. With that, you get double the cache. I definitely know which one I'd get.

Last Post, suck-ahs!!!!!!!!

the thunderbird core is faster than the athlon core because the cache is on-die opposed to the ram chips the athlon uses. That means the cache on the thunderbird chips will b running at 100% of the speed of the cpu unlike the current althons.

T-Bird prices will probably be relatively similar to today's Athlons. I don't see any other reason for AMD to charge otherwise, after all these will become their #1 cash cow while the reserves of classic Athlons melt away.

TargetBoy

Thanks for the update. I remember sitting here wondering what you were going to do with your system

Thanks!

-Lex

Yeah but those prices really aren't representative of what they will be once they are common in the market. Since the store is the first to announce prices, chances are they are slightly high. Plus, the big quesiton is how much the Thunderbirds will be in relation to Duron prices, not just one or the other.

This was on AMDZone a few days ago, but I'll post it for those of you whom haven't seen it already:

http://www.lynncomp.com/amd.htm

They've got Duron prices and motherboards (ETA mid June).

Was saving for a Celery 2, but wait!


The plot thickens.....

The Duron sure does sound tempting.. I wonder how pricing of the Thunderbird chip will compare with the Duron though? The Thunderbird will have to remain competitive with Intel's offerings. That's why I'm not sure how much cheaper the Duron will be than the Thunderbird. So whether the lower cost will be significant enough to outweigh the cache penalty will be the big question.. But either way, I can't wait to see how these new full-speed cache CPUs perform!

I'm really starting to get frustrated with how Quake3 is playing on my machine.

It's kind of funny actually, when I sucked worse at Quake3, I didn't notice how hard it is to aim at an opponent when my FPS are lagging into the 20's and 30's.

Ah well. I'll grab a 750 or 800 Thunderbird and another 128MB of PC133 and see how hard I can push this TNT2Ultra. If that doesn't make the FPS stutter go away, I'll get a GeForce DDR and put the TNT2 in my new server so I can do lan games when friends come over.

Bake me a Thunderchicken!

http://www.jennastyle.com/jenna1224/jennaxxx.html

ARGH it dosent go to the archive anymore!

Actually, they'll release in Slot and Socket A at first, phasing out the Slot.

Yea, but what motherboard's can we use?

Yeaherrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Good. Now maybe the price on K6-2 550's will drop. When it gets down to $30 or so I'm picking one up to drop in my motherboard (from 350 before). I gotta keep my computer up to minimum specs. for upcoming games, you know.

Totally off-topic, but I thought I saw a link to the E3 "Metal Gear Solid" demo on the Shack a few days ago -- a 160mb version. Does anybody know where this is, if I wasn't hallucinating? Tx!

1 ghz Tbird...... soooooooon my precious..... sooooooooon...... my P2 400 is intolerable.....

My new CPU in a few years will be AMD.