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Actually, I believe that the model rating is to indicate how fast the new CPU is compared to _Thunderbird_ cpu if they had made T-Birds at that speed. Ripped blatantly from (http://www.hardocp.com/reviews/cpus/amd/1533xp/) AthlonXP 1800+ = 1.53GHz AthlonXP 1700+ = 1.47GHz AthlonXP 1600+ = 1.4GHz AthlonXP 1500+ = 1.33GHz This is AMD's new rating system. The core logic here (pun intended) is that if they had built an 1.8GHz TBird chip, the AthlonXP at 1.533GHz would be equal in performance. I will sort of buy that, as it does at least have some logic to it.
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Actually, I believe that the model rating is to indicate how fast the new CPU is compared to _Thunderbird_ cpu if they had made T-Birds at that speed.
Ripped blatantly from (http://www.hardocp.com/reviews/cpus/amd/1533xp/)
AthlonXP 1800+ = 1.53GHz
AthlonXP 1700+ = 1.47GHz
AthlonXP 1600+ = 1.4GHz
AthlonXP 1500+ = 1.33GHz
This is AMD's new rating system. The core logic here (pun intended) is that if they had built an 1.8GHz TBird chip, the AthlonXP at 1.533GHz would be equal in performance. I will sort of buy that, as it does at least have some logic to it.