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Athlon 64 Debuts
SpinnerBait writes "AMD launches their Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX chips today and there is
a full analysis with benchmarks up at HotHardware. Interestingly
enough, Intel pulled a fast one (literally) and released a new breed of Pentium
4 chips with 2MB of on board L3 cache, just in time to boost their performance
in the benchmarks for this launch. Regardless, the performance levels for
AMD's new flagship look very strong." Tom's has a story, or Tech Report, or see info straight from AMD.
...how does it benchmark against the Commodore 64???
Begun these processor wars have!
"Comedy's a dead art form. Now tragedy, that's funny."
A site with the name "HOT" Hardware had to review an AMD chip. Why not just post a Slashdot article asking for AMD overheating jokes? Open the floodgates!
In Soviet Russia, Natalie Portman imagines a beowulf cluster of grits welcoming our new profit overlords, you insensitive clod!
"Give away the stone, let the oceans take and transmutate this cold and faded anchor." - Maynard James Keenan
Easy - the Athlon 64 FX 51 is 5.1GHz.
:)
Right?
And BTW windows released XP 64bit Beta1 today.
:)
*shudder*
Don't speak like that again.
Have they even created one yet?
Actually, no.
If you take a closer look at the pictures in the article, you will see that they've attached a wire to each and every pin of the processor. It's all a loose mess of wires and duct tape. If you want an Athlon 64, you'll probably have to do the same yourself, because there aren't scheduled any motherboards for it before sometime after christmas.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
why would joe user go buy one? to check their mail?
You're right, it's useless. Any advance in processor technology should be stopped at once, we can already mails after all.
ignoramous! myopic! moron!
.... or even better... .... or even better...
I write apps, that people use to read email, and I write these apps on the J2EE platform. Have you ever tried writing a 3 to 4 tier'd app? all running on one development machine running NT? Including the Oracle server?
I write apps, that programmers use to write apps for people to read their email. You can bet I need all the horsepower I can get!.
I write Virtual Machines that code jokey's use to develop tools to confuse, er uh, empower other developers to create tools for other people to write email readers so they can get their work done. I need more than just a little horsepower, I need at least a native 64bit processor and OS.
Yes! Exactly! With affordable broadband, Joe User will get so much cleverly disguised spam mail, he will need the last powerful processor to properly run the newer anti-spam filtering technology in decent times.
Forget about programmable 3D processors, the future is 10 Ghz antispam coprocessors.
Ha! good article my ass.
The anandtech article runs a measly 18 pages, while tom's runs 53. So it is clear that the THG article is 194% better than the anandtech one (see fig.1).What's more, in our second test, "pretty pictures on the first page of the article" the beleaguered news site falls even further behind. While THG has 4 pictures on the first page, including one of the athlon XP (oh shiny!) anandtech has none. This could be due to a browser incompatibility or a hyper-active web-filter but we couldn't be bothered to check. (see fig.2)As we can see, the THG article has !DIVISION_BY_ZERO! times the images of the anandech one, and so it must be much better.
[I am quite surprised that this post passes the lameness filter, considering the amount of ugly ASCII art. The fact that
"Pentium 5"?
No, they'll just call it Manganese, the 25th element.
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