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AMD Athlon 64 Performance Preview

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the finger-burning-good dept.

k-hell writes "It seems like X-bit Labs have gotten their hands on an 'engineering sample of the AMD Athlon 64 2800+ processor'. Damage at Tech Report is writing that 'This is really fun, but I am a little concerned about their memory latency numbers.'"

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  1. For strange values of "worse" by AndroidCat · · Score: 4, Funny
    When Athlon processors came out in 1999, the competition in the processor market became much worse.

    I don't think that word means what they think it does.

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  2. Got their hands on it? by bplipschitz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did they burn their fingers?

  3. Umm.... by LucidityZero · · Score: 4, Funny
    From the article:
    Unfortunately, 64bit operation systems and applications are not available yet.
    Really? I could have sworn...
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  4. Re:Quick conclusion by herrd0kt0r · · Score: 5, Funny

    or, for the more intuitive of you: simply click the "11" at the top. it takes you to the 11th page without you having to click through all the pages.

    here's a graphic:

    Pages:1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11
    click here^^

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  5. Re:Quick conclusion by TitusC3v5 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Umm...please tell me I wasn't the only person who tried to click on that. :-o

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  6. Guess who I am? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm the Iraqi information minister, and I tell you this: you are a liar! You are all liars! There is no Athlon 64. Never! AMD is commiting suicide. Intel has been wipded out. Now we ambush Transmeta and we destroy it, with the help of God.