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AMD's 'Newcastle' Budget Athlon64 Chips Analyzed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that-was-just-noise dept.

Edward Scissorhands writes "CNET News.com reported on Thursday that AMD had released a new "budget" Athlon64 CPU. Appearing on the AMD roadmap under the codename of "Newcastle", these chips are identical to the 754-pin Athlon64 3200+ in every way except for the size of their L2 cache (512KB vs. 1MB). CNET suggests that some of these chips may be 3200's that don't pass QA as having full 1MB caches. Newcastle chips are about half the cost of their 1MB cached counterparts, though preliminary benchmarks from Anand indicate favourable performance/price."

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  1. bad bad bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    a processor named after a beer?

    1. Re:bad bad bad by UnknowingFool · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why not? They already a version of Linux is named after a beer (Redhat 7.0=Guinness). So all they need is motherboard named after a snack, then you've got a whole party:
      Yes, I've got Newcastle with Pretzels. They're running with Guinness.

      --
      Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
  2. It's all Bush's fault by Luscious868 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This move by AMD is clearly the result of Intel not contributing enough to Bush's reelection fund. Bush and his evil neo-con allies have it in for Intel and are using AMD as a front to destroy it. No blood for processor preformance!