AthlonXP Released

ldopa1 writes "True to form, AMD has released the new Athlon XP today. This article on Tom's Hardware has the full technical specs for the chip as well as a look at the new packaging. Tom's also has a full set of benchmarks for the chip." michael : See also reviews on LinuxHardware.org, Newsforge, AnandTech and AMDMB. Update: 10/09 20:29 GMT by T : gregfortune points out that AMD is giving away quite a few of these in a six-city promotion as well, so if you live in one of the six, perhaps you can snag one.

Comments

Re:Microsoft Does it....

[Zo0ok]

but I'd still like to know what the MHz is

I just wonder... exactly what are you going to do with that piece of information? Is it actually useful for any purpose at all? I can hardly come up with an example of less relevant data. Voltage of the motor in a DVD-player?

For people who know a thing or two about cpus, MHz is and has been a useful measure of performance, but primarily in the sense that 333MHz >> 60MHz. If we were often interested in FLOPS those values would have been seen more. Today 1 Hz != 1 Instruction per second...

I guess the kernel developers can use the MHz value for something, but they can probably figure it out too. And of course, I guess that the internal clock frequency of a cpu will be mentioned in a technical specification, available for anyone who might need it along with other information like the function of all pins. And for you to.

Get over it, its like getting used to the metric system ;)

Re:Model Numbers

[DivineOb]

SPEC benchmarks are all legitimate, real world applications (or do you consider gcc to be a toy benchmark?). Where are you getting your information from?

Re:wtf

[k_187]

No this is just Micro$oft trying to piggyback on Mac OS X. Hell, they stole the damn duck icon from teh login screen :P.