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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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