Tom on the Athlon (And an Intel Conspiracy?)

ninjaz writes "Tom from Tom's Hardware has published his first Athlon Motherboard Reviews, where he states "I know for a fact that Asus has designed a highly excellent Athlon-motherboard" , which Asus has mysteriously deciding against selling. This amidst rumors of Intel threats of artificial BX chipset shortages. " You conspiracy nuts are gonna love this one. It does look fishy.

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[SirSlud]

Everybody, lets scare Intel. If I have to see one more commercial with men in silvery suits dancing because their processor is so gosh darn fun, or commercial that tells me my 'processor makes the internet faster', I'm gunna cry. The word on the street is that the Merced is going to do your laundry and pay your bills for you too.

The K7 has scored very very well in benchmarking so far (all reviews I've seen have beaten out the P3, and MSI/FIC/Giga's MBoards are apparently just as fast as AMDs referance board), so it looks like AMD has done exactly what it said it was going to do - increase FP performance. If I were in the market, I'd buy a K7 when they came out. Not only because they look like they're the head of the pack right now, but I really believe AMD deserves a pat on the back. From the looks of it, they assesed their weaknesses, and fixed them.