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AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Released

Posted by Hemos on from the tide-goes-in-tide-goes-out dept.

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."

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  1. Oh man...winter just ended... by MeanE · · Score: 5, Funny

    and I already had bought a space heater.

    1. Re:Oh man...winter just ended... by Schezar · · Score: 4, Funny

      You know, AMD procs don't have the heat problems they used to have. If they overheat your case, it's usually due to a poorly made case or some other factor. Like, say, a modern video card... -_-

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  2. poor AMD by MacOS_Rules · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...compete with Intel's "yang"...

    Poor AMD, releasing a faster proc just because they feel...inadaquate...

    I bet they drive SUVs too. A shame, really.

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  3. Finally! by The-Bus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Excellent, now I will finally be able to upgrade the chip on my homemade iLoo.

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  4. From the article... by fok · · Score: 5, Funny

    The AMD Athlon(TM) XP processor with performance-enhancing cache memory features 64K instruction and 64K data caches for a total of 128K L1 cache and 512K of integrated, on-chip L2 cache for a total of 640K of full-speed, on-chip cache.

    So... will I be able to run MS-DOS programs directly from the processor cache? ;D

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  5. Wow by Wordsmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    "This CPU runs with a 400MHz Front Side Bus at 2.2GHz ..."

    Now -that's- overclocking.