To go along with the announcement of the 1GHz Athlon CPU, AnandTech has posted their review of the CPU. Also SharkyExtreme has put together a new review of the CPU going through all the regular benchmarks.

Tech-Report has an interesting story taking a look at the future of overclocking Athlon CPU/motherboards. Looks like we're gonna have all kinds of crazy toys to mess with.

It looks like AMD is turning up the heat really quick. The Athlon 1GHz chip is being released on Monday. Asking of course "How ya like them apples Intel?" AMD is also releasing a 900mhz and 950mhz to go along with the basket of apples. Thanks Nate Fox.

How long could it take, really? ZDNet UK is reporting (thanks Johnny Rotten) that AMD is set to release a 900MHz, 950MHz and 1GHz Athlon simultaneously, and apparently very soon ("even later this month") just like Intel.

According to sources, AMD will toss out the usual procedure of releasing one clock speed at a time in a move designed to humiliate its gargantuan rival Intel in an ongoing PR war. If AMD pulls the move off, and the source warns that "this is the goal, but these things can change in a minute", it will also make AMD's 850MHz Athlon -- currently the fastest processor available in full production volumes -- only the fourth-fastest on the chip maker's roster. Its 850MHz chip was introduced on 11 February.

AnandTech has taken a look at all the Athlon motherboards on display at CeBit, twenty of them.

Yummy! It's a fight to the death between AMD and Intel and it looks like the AMD folks just took a big swing. The Athlon800 CPU has just been dropped down in price by 29%! (Thanks Conan Ford) Yup, you can grab a 800mhz chip for under $600 now. Still pretty damn pricey but a nice drop from the $850 mark it was at. There are a few other price cuts as well. AMD states that this just goes along with the release of the 850mhz Athlon they just put on the market.

update by Maarten: Ah, seems Intel has done the same though, lowering their price of the P3 800-MHz processor by 24% to $647 (still more $ than the Athlon). They are preparing for the launch of the 850 and 866mhz versions of the Pentium3. All other P3's were also cut by around 23%, with the Celeron and Xeon processors also becoming cheaper. Thanks Jeff Cheng.

PCParadox has an article online which takes a look at some recent happenings which seem to point to AMD and Motorola getting together to create a new product.

ZDNet has a new article up taking a look once again at the ongoing battle between AMD and Intel. There is one especially interesting tidbit in there that caught my eye though. It looks like AMD is going to come through with that 1GHz promise real soon:

AMD, meanwhile, is privately telling PC makers to expect availability of 1GHz Athlon chips in 60 days.

GamersDepot has a new in depth look at the KX133 motherboard chipset made for Athlons. Speaking of Athlons, here is an article on the K6-3 and Athlons. On top of that, Tyan has just announced a new motherboard for the Athlon CPU line. Thanks SlotA.com

The Tech-Report folks have a great roundup of all the overclocking toys you can use on those AMD Athlon CPUs. If you're looking to crank one of those AMD chips is pretty damn easy, and this is the guide to get you there.

The Register is on top of it again, reporting that AMD will unleash a 933mhz Athlon in April. Current price is $860 but they (some Taiwanese sources of The Register) expect it to sell for less than $850 when it ships. Thanks AMD Zone.

Further good news for AMD and its Athlon Powers suggest that FIC's (First International Corporation's) SK11 boards are likely to hit OEMs real soon now, for around $85. These will use the Via KX153 chipset supporting 133MHz synchronous memory 4xAGP and other features.

According to the source, the FIC SK11 has a software BIOS overclocking facility which will allow users to keep clocking up the board until it fails, and then to auto-drop to the last reliable clock-up.

This mobo, apparently, will also tell users what error codes are, using real-life phrases like: "Your video it not working too well."

"Your video it not working too well" ? Heh, sounds kinda wacky.

Sharky's has a Athlon Overclocking Guide, putting the Outside Loop Afterburner! against the TS Electronics K7OC Card (Yeah neither had I).

Eurogamer.net is carrying a story which looks at the upcoming AMD CPUs which will be using copper interconnects codenamed 'Thuderbird'. Also, AMDZone has an article taking a look at the MHz war that is going on between Intel and AMD.

Speedy3D has a new article taking a look at the overclock abilities of AMD Athlon CPUs. They are quite a snap to overclock actually, just pop off the back and slap on one of those Goldfinger connectors.

Tech-Report has a review of a retail overclocked Athlon system (which AMD would rather not see) versus a normal Athlon system

AnandTech is the latest on the block with an Athlon 850mhz review (a very big one at that). It shows that only coupled with the right motherboard and memory, Athlon can keep up with the Pentium3. On-die cache seems a must right now for the Athlons.

The folks at GamersDepot are some of the first to get a hold of an Athlon 850 and put it through the paces. Check out the latest benchmarks, it overclocks nice too. The Sharkster has a review too.

As was mentioned last week, AMD is capable of pushing out 1GHz CPUs at any time. Well they just proved it. AMD just put out a press release about 45minutes ago announcing that they just got a 1.1GHz Athlon CPU off of their assembly lines in Dresden Germany and demonstrated it. The CPU is using the new 0.18micron and on-die L2 cache.

The demonstration featured the newest version of the AMD Athlon processor that integrates high-performance on-die Level 2 (L2) cache. The device is manufactured utilizing AMD's leading-edge HiP6L 0.18 micron process technology featuring copper interconnects. The demonstration required no special cooling techniques...
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Anandtech has gotten a hold of the new Athlon KX133 chipset motherboard and puts it through the paces. I've been holding off on a new Athlon board waiting for this stuff myself. If you're lookin at that upgrade have a look.

Well we all know Intel is having shall we say a tad bit of problems getting out any CPUs that are even 800mhz lately, and they are of course planning on showing off the 1GHz P3 CPU in 2 weeks. JC's PCNews got a quote from an 'undisclosed' AMD rep on how AMD is reacting to all this: (Thanks Zaknafein)

"Fab 25 could ship 1 GHZ parts at any time the marketing department wants to introduce them (note, these are not Cu, but Al interconnects!). Currently there is no incentive for AMD to do this because Intel is falling all over themselves trying (and failing) to meet 800 MHZ demand".