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Athlon 64 Debuts

Posted by michael on 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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  1. A happy coincidence by RealAlaskan · · Score: 5, Informative
    By a happy coincidence, I just today got my copies of the x86-64 programmer's manuals. There are five volumes:
    1) Application Programming
    2) Ssytems Programming
    3) General Purpose and System Instructions
    4) 128-Bit Media Instructions
    5) 64-Bit Media and x87 Floating-Point Instructions

    Get them here.

    Then go make your favorite compiler or windowing system work better on this.

    --
    See what I've been reading.
  2. Reviews of Mobo and Chipsets by carbona · · Score: 5, Informative
    For those of you lucky enough to be already considering what mainboard your new Athlon 64 will be running on, OCWorkBench has been posting reviews in the past month on three motherboards/chipsets: