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1.3GHz Duron Arrives

Posted by timothy on from the schnell-und-gunstig dept.

zebadee writes: "Tom's Hardware has the news that AMD have released a 1.3GHz Duron to the "mainstream PC market" that has been optimised for use with WindowsXP. The article also asks 'why haven't AMD gone with the MHz doesn't equal performance as they have done with the new XP/MP chips, as it would be assumed the market for these will be consumers who don't generally look at benchmark figures?' More information can be found at the AMD website."

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  1. Re:What?! by ncc74656 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Really how hard would it be for Microsoft include a couple of kernels each optimized for the processor its running on(Maybe they do this and I just don't know it? Please reply and let me know :)).
    Given that NT shipped with single-processor and multiprocessor kernels, I wouldn't think it'd be hard at all for kernels to be shipped that are optimized for different processors or groups of processors.
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  2. Re:"Optimized" for WinXP?? by haruharaharu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    do you optimize a chip for an operating system, anyway?

    You profile it and then make the commonly used code paths go faster.

    What probably actually happened is that AMD profiled a bunch of code and used it to optimize their CPU. since XP probably has similar code paths, you just don't mention that it's also optimized for the bulk of x86 code

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  3. is Slashdot some sort of tomshardware affiliate? by tandr · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I do not get it. Why slashdot all of sudden interested in AMD (or Intel) chips that they crank out every month or so with new Hz and nothing new inside? Just to get "imagine beowulf claster of clasters of these"? Is it "stuff that matters"?

    Beside tomshardware there are a lot more sites with nice covering of whatever you want (http://xbit-labs.com for example).

    Yeah, right, toms is heavy loaded with ads (I think I never saw any site that has more per page ads), so may be slashdot decided to have 10% of revenue from it for just redirecting bunch of "cool folks" :) ?

    Couple years ago slashdot was much more "ahead of time", I used to find "things" there first, and after couple days notice same references or articles on other sites. Now it is opposite -- you find cool thing, and completely not sure if you will ever see discussion of this on slashdot (slashdot is famous for comments, not for articles).

    If 2 years is "lifetime" of modern PC, and you upgrade it, may be it is a time for slashers to upgrade to something cool or at least to be up to date? It is not a MTV, it should get better year to year...

    tandr.