Slashdot Mirror
AMD Releases 12 New Chips at CeBIT
SuperDuG writes "AMD now offers three categories of processor for notebooks grouped under the Athlon XP-M brand. It labels them "desktop replacement," "standard," and the new "low-voltage". AMD plans to make a desktop replacement in the notebook computer market using the Barton Core, a technology designed to double the CPU Cache. Looks like yet another case of AMD being one-up on Intel."
Rumor has it that AMD intends to begin advertising a dual-purpose "egg frying" processor shortly.
Do you like German cars?
...but can these chips be used for Poker?
evil adrian
Well, "low-voltage" has the obvious advantage of being a word in the English language.
"I want 16cpu MB with 8MB cache per chip damnit!"
I want a cruise ship, a space shuttle, a space station, and a cell phone so tiny that I risk accidentally swallowing it, damnit!
Forget Barton Core, I want to get hardcore with their Grand Prix Models ;-)
Ok, let it out. We all think it's quite funny that you're the first person to think up that you can fry an egg on an Athlon, or use it as a tanning bed, or whatever.
Fact is, Barton 3000+ dissapates 74W max, while Intel's P4 3gig dissapates 82W max. SO SHUT UP ABOUT IT ALREADY!
I want 16cpu MB with 8MB cache per chip damnit!
Okay.
I write in my journal
But this is Slashdot of course, where every story on the front page has to include some little bit of troll bait against Microsoft (or Intel, AMD, Sun, the RIAA, etc.) You wouldn't actually want journalism would you?
I want a Pony!
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
with the code name 'Judas' but they decided to hold that one back for a later show.
I had a Gateway 2000 that only ran at 33mhz.
Speaking of the centrino, I imagined it in a little foil lined package, a centurion on the label, an anti-virus component, an a nonoxynol -9 process killer.
Mortar.
I've had this sig for three days.
Oh Opteron where art thou?
Shouldn't 640K be enough for everyone?
>The 1GHz C3 is actualy slower than a 667MHz Celeron.
I call extreme bullshit. Mod the parent down.
I have had a 666 Mhz C3 that plays DVD video and lets me do web surfing at the same time.
Scaling Tom's numbers I would have a slower than 444 Mhz celeron. That's barely enough to play DVDs, never mind do that and surf the web.
So, tell me Tom, how is it to bias your benchmarks so purposely? Did your "I want to have PC Chips lovechild" article end your quality reporting? Or did it all end when you became so pathetic at identifying a processors strengths and weaknesses that you didn't even bother to check the history of the Cyrix line? The processor runs word fast as fuck. It isn't for playing quake. That's why it's so cheap it's almost free.
Tom, you make a mockery of the entire review industry. Please, close up shop, or at least start using those PC Chips parts you love so much for everything. How's them plastic-blobs-for-cache doing, anyways?
BTW, Tom, since you obviously have no problems whatsoever with ECS slapping your seal of approval on your box, do you have any problems with me pirating your entire site? Because that's what PC Chips does with the only code on their boards, eh? Yup, that's right, I have a PC Chips board and the only reason there's no updates is because they're pirates.
Neither ECS nor Chaintech is known as a top motherboard company. This is certainly not because of their inability to make good products, but because they lack consistency in their product lines and usually concentrate on the OEM market as well.
No, Tom, it's because ECS's supplier company (PC Chips) pirates their software, and their defrauds customers. A 10 second search of usenet and google would have turned this up.
God, I hate Tom's Hardware. Sucks so badly. Worse reporting daily. Blech.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC