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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. Intel is dying.. by Sonnenschein · · Score: 0, Troll

    P4 EE 3.2ghz ~ $750
    Athlon 64 3200+ (2.0ghz) ~$500
    Athlon FX 51 (2.2ghz) ~ $700-800

    And how much are 512Mb ECC chips ?

  2. Linux by Yanray · · Score: 0, Troll

    How long till Linix has a dedicated 64 bit dedicated system?

    Microsoft 64 2008?

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  3. Re:"Fast one"? by Master+Bait · · Score: 0, Troll
    Gee, and nobody has taken a swipe at MicroS**t for their inability to release an X86-64 version of their crappy software in a timely manner.

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