AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Released

SpinnerBait writes "AMD took the wraps off their next speed bump with the Barton core, the Athlon XP 3200+. This CPU runs with a 400MHz Front Side Bus at 2.2GHz and is targeted at competing toe to toe with Intel's latest P4. The benchmarks and review over at HotHardware, look pretty good but Intel's 3GHz/800MHz FSB P4 variant seems to squeak past it here and there. Regardless, more of that "yin" to compete with Intel's "yang" was released today by AMD and consumers will benefit again from the competition."

Comments

Overkill

[A Proud American]

I'm not just saying this because most of us are out of work right now and barely getting by financially, but I honestly don't see why someone would need a three Gigahertz processor to run today's popular software.

Until we get the next killer application (like VisiCalc back in '79), I recommend that all my clients save money by not upgrading to the latest and greatest hardware.

Unless you use X-Windows or any other bloated (I don't mean this in a harsh way -- just being honest) piece of software, you don't need the extra speed.

Not even close to reality

[Maxamoto]

AMD is a cheap knockoff. Nothing more. How else can you explain having to add a bunch of options to the FreeBSD kernel just to get it to recompile? Gee... I didn't have to do that with Intel. Poor reverse engineering is all it is. And it helps that hardware sites like Toms and ARS habitually lie about the performance, and oh, did I mention AMD pays them off constantly? We tried a roll-out of AMD at work last year with 6 AMD-based name brand computers (I'll spare that particular manufacturer the agony of this article as their Intel products are solid). Less than a year later none of the AMDs are functioning. Every single one of them died. Not the motherboard. Not the hard drive. The processor. They're K-mart quality! Wal-Mart! Ghetto silicon!