AMD's 'Newcastle' Budget Athlon64 Chips Analyzed

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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fascinating

[Anonymous Coward]

no, really.

i'm fascinated.

fp

[Anonymous Coward]

fp?

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[Anonymous Coward]

Has anyone used the Minolta Dimage Z1 and if so what was your experience with it? What is the Linux compatibility like?

Re:I'm sure

[Leffe]

With a name like 'Pingular', you must surely be an insider, could you help me with the following piece of data. It is kind of confusing for someone that does not sleep with an AMD chip under his pillow. There's just too many numbers, I can't even decide on where to start.

Something I noticed though, is that there are random english words thrown in, I beleive it's to make the language 'cool'.

Speed Rating 3000+ 3200+ Unrated nratedActual CPU Speed 2.0Ghz 2.0GHz FX51 -- .2GHz x48 -- 2.2GHzx46 -- 2.0GHzx44 -- 1.8GHzx42 -- .6GHzx40 -- 1.4GHzL1 Cache 128k64k Code Cache+ 64k Data Cache 128k64k Code Cache + 64k ata Cache 128k64k Code Cache + 64k Data ache 28k64k Code Cache + 64k Data CacheL2 Cache 12kb 1024kb 1024kb 1024kbMemory Type nbuffered DDR Unbuffered DDR Registered or egistered ECC DDR Registered or Registered CC DDRMemory Speed Supported Up to DDR400 Upto DDR400 Up to DDR400 Up to DDR400 on ater models, Up to DDR333 on earlier modelsMaximumCPUs 1 1 1 xx-- 12xx -- 28xx -- 8On-Chip Memory Controller es es Yes YesHyper Transport Speed Upto 1.6GHz(800MHz Clock) Up to .6GHz(800MHzClock) Up to 1.6GHz(800MHz Clock) p to 1.6GHz(800MHz Clock)rocessor(s): AMD thlon64 3000+AMD Athlon64 3200+Intel Pentium 4 .2GHzIntel Pentium 4 3.0GHzAMD Athlon64 FX51RAM: x 512Mb OCZ 3500 Platinum Ltd2 x 512Mb Mushkin CCRegistered High Performance 2:3:2Hard Drive(s): eagate 120GB 7200 RPM (8MB Buffer)Video AGP & IDE us Master Drivers: VIA Hyperion 4.51 12/02/03)Intel Chipset DriversVideo Card(s): TIRadeon 9800 PRO 128MB (AGP 8X)Video Drivers: TICatalyst 3.10Operating System(s): Windows XPProfessional SP1Motherboards: Soltek L-K8AV2-RL (VIA K8T800 -- 754)Asus P4C800-E (Intel 75P -- 478)Asus SK8V (VIA K8T800 -- 940)

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[Anonymous Coward]

Re:I'm sure

[Anonymous Coward]

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