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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FP by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-23 05:38 · Score: -1, Troll

It's been a while.
fp by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-23 05:38 · Score: -1, Troll

First, bitches! Athlon r0xx0rz
Goatsex Debuts by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-23 05:38 · Score: -1, Troll

Goatsex
fp by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-23 05:38 · Score: -1, Troll

PICTURES OF NAKED PEOPLE!!!
competition always good by witts · 2003-09-23 05:39 · Score: -1, Troll

I remember the days of Intel charging huge $$$ for their processors, so I for one welcome our new CPU overlords!!!

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Intel is dying.. by Sonnenschein · 2003-09-23 05:40 · 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 ?
Linux by Yanray · 2003-09-23 05:42 · Score: 0, Troll

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

Microsoft 64 2008?

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Re:"Fast one"? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-23 05:50 · Score: -1, Troll

"In what friggin universe"

In the FUCKING universe where REAL people live.
Re:Yes, but... by Jugalator · 2003-09-23 05:50 · Score: -1, Troll

Yeah, it's sad to see that the Athlon 64 isn't even compatible with something as basic as Contiki. ;)

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Re:"Fast one"? by Master+Bait · 2003-09-23 06:35 · 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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