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Athlon XP1900+ -- Faster Than A 2GHz P4?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday November 5, 2001 @02:10AM from the speed-rather-than-fastness dept.

doormat writes "AMD releases their AthlonXP 1900+ Processor today, thats 1.6GHz. And it seems like its enough to topple the P4-2.0GHz, even in Quake 3 Arena!! AMDMB has a review of it." Ian Bell points out an AMD press release on the new processor. I love watching my old Athlon get slower every day ...

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quake iii by Anonymous Coward · 2001-11-05 02:23 · Score: 2, Redundant

i just love how quake 3 has become the benchmarking programming for any video card that comes out now...
maybe they should design the cards to work better in quake 3 and ignore the other...oh wait, i think someone may have already done that...