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."

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Still not faster..

[CausticWindow]

than my overclocked 2400 (in gigahertz that is).

Re:Overkill

[Pros_n_Cons]

Well, I'm just now reading about Gentoo and thinking about installing it, but my PC is too slow.(233) Id sure love a 3GHz to compile all that stuff. BTW if X is so bloated how come my 233, 64MB ram only uses next to noting on cpu cycles and about 15 megs of RAM, granted i use fluxbox but contrary to popular dis-information X is a damn well built peice of software.

Re:Athlon rating system over-rated?

[TheViffer]

"It leads me to believe that Intel rely far more on being able to ramp up their clockspeed than they do on creating a better chip."

Go get an AMD 2400 XP and a Pentium 2.4 and pull the heat sinks off while they are running.

Sound unlikely? Okay lets try again.

A wire gets stuck in your cpu fan.
Your CPU fan dies.
The epoxy connecting the cpu/sink drys out.

Tell me which one is still working (and motherboard) and then tell me who makes a more reliable "better" chip. The AMD will toast itself, more then likely the board, and whatever else it can get its pins onto. The Intel will underclock itself and save your system.

Running AMD's is like handling C4 .. if your not careful your going to get burned. I myself run them, but never feel as confident as I do with the Intels.