Athlon 64 Debuts

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Posted by michael on Tuesday September 23, 2003 @05:37AM from the hotter-than-ever dept.

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.

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Yes, but... by vacaboca · 2003-09-23 05:39 · Score: 4, Funny

...how does it benchmark against the Commodore 64???
Mmm yesss by mesmartyoudumb · 2003-09-23 05:41 · Score: 3, Funny

Begun these processor wars have!

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Re:Indeed a fast one up on AMD by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-23 05:52 · Score: 3, Funny

And BTW windows released XP 64bit Beta1 today.

*shudder*

Don't speak like that again. :)
Re:What about supporting hardware? by CausticWindow · 2003-09-23 05:52 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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Re:this is great but... by cr_nucleus · 2003-09-23 05:54 · Score: 3, Funny

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.
AT and THG compared ! by pyrros · 2003-09-23 08:39 · Score: 5, Funny

>And Anandtech has a good article up, as well.

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).
55| __ 50| || | || 40| || | || 30| || | || __ 20| || || \--------- . THG. A/T
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)
A/T | | THG |================] \----------------- 0 1 .. 2 .. 3 .. 4
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 ./ kills whitespace in ecode is annoying though ]
1. Re:AT and THG compared ! by placeclicker · 2003-09-23 09:15 · Score: 3, Funny
  
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  Talk about one of the worst spelling mistakes possible... :)
  
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