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AMD Thunderbird Pricing
by Steve Gibson, May 19, 2000 3:35pm PDTA little more Thunderbird action for you guys. EBNS has an excellent article on the upcoming AMD CPUs (10 of them!) that should be released early next month. Most interestingly there is discussion about the economics of pricing the chips and the cache locations etc. If you're a chip-head it is well worth a look.
But the performance the Athlon core produces could also make the Thunderbird more expensive to manufacture than the Coppermine. [snip] Adding 256 Kbytes of cache to the Athlon die would boost its cost by about 25%, according to Keith Diefendorff, an analyst with MicroDesign Resources.AMD has pretty consistently undercut Intel in the price/mhz war, things might get a little hairy with the Thunderbird and Duron chips though.
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I'm still not going to upgrade until February, when hopefully a 1ghz Thunderchicken will be better priced and DDR Ram prices have dropped. I forsee a mad rush to the DDR Ram market, thus increasing prices for the first few months.
It's Odd that Duron-2 (Duron Duron, it's a joke if you haven't figured it out yet, like Thunderchicken)with it's 64kb of L2 cache is being so snubbed, when it's still reportedly going to be faster than a current Athlon with 512 off die L2 cache.
Last question - what do you guys think - 17" monitor is good enough or spend the extra and snag a 19" monitor? My 15" monitor is 4 years old and making wierd noises when I shut it off.
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If that comment on the L1/L2 cache being exclusive (stuff in L1 doesn't have to be in L2), the Duron will have 192kb of effective cache while the Coppermine has 256kb. The faster core and lack of cache use in games should make the Duron 'Whoop Ass' (TM) when compared to the Coppermine, plus cost all of about 1/5th the price ($89-159 !?!?!!!), and run on 100mhz bus still leaving at least some room for overclocking.
Now, if Via and AMD could produce a motherboard that can compete with the 440BX chipset on reliability, compatibilty, price, and speed...
While I'm bothering to post... WTF happened to Spitfire. It was the perfect name. Duron?!?! WTF... Duron sounds more like the server class processor. Come on... I hope they don't rename the Thunderbird, too. What are they going to call it? The Trogun? Maybe Lifestyron for the server class 1024kb cache chip?
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