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Athlon MP Reviewed
RendEr writes "At The Tech Report, there's a review of AMD's latest multiprocessor chip, the Athlon MP 1900+. Watching this thing smoke through Linux kernel complies is a beautiful thing. Combined with AMD's new 760MPX chipset, these chips could help usher in a new era of cheap dual-processor desktop systems. "
"Sorry kids, no Christmas presents this year... Daddy's gonna buy a dual Athlon!" ;-)
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Oh come on... "heat issues"? Yeah, it smokes if you rip off the heatsink, what a surprise...
Well, I'm glad this chip complies with the Linux kernel. Does it comply with any others?
Simply call it the:
"AMD Athlon Faster than the last one we released"
It is really suited for the server market. It is true that you don't need a dual processor system at home, that is why you can't go to Best Buy and pick one up. They are suited for server environments and men with small -um, I mean- power-hungry users.
FLOPS is just as bad; it only measures FPU performance, so it's only remotely accurate for math intensive apps; also, just as for CPU speed, it totally ignores how much work you actually accomplish during a cycle. We might as well go with BOGOMips - at least we know those aren't accurate...
/Janne
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I want to see tom's Hardware do an expose on the space shuttle and take off the heat shield during re-entry. That is something that I'm sure worries the astronauts to death.
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Would the cache-less version of your proposed BI be the "Athlon BI-curious"
ho ho ho
It didn't help matters that Apple computers aren't really that fast; don't get me wrong, I own a mac and I love it, but the PPC just doesn't outclass x86s like Apple claims, at least in real-world applications.
True; the "400Mhz G4 beats 800Mhz Pentium" tests all depended on vectorized assembly stuff, but I don't think there's a benchmark at which a G4 wouldn't have blown away an Intel chip at the same clock speed. I suppose that's part of the problem: "Our computers are slower than theirs, but not nearly as much as you'd think!" isn't a great marketing gimmick.