AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Released

Posted by Hemos on Tuesday May 13, 2003 @12:43AM 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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Re:Overkill by angle_slam · 2003-05-13 01:32 · Score: 0, Troll

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.
An unemployment rate of 6% means "most of us" are out of work?