Re: AMD Athlon Processor Rockets to 1GHz...Intel has 1gHz too

And the intel one is cheaper 990 $ compared to AMD�s 1,260 $ BR Thomas Soerensen GPL Enthusiast of Denmark In article <[email hidden]>, Skotty Flynn <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> SUNNYVALE, CA--March 6, 2000--AMD today reached a computer industry > milestone, announcing commencement of shipments > of 1GHz AMD Athlon� processors. The first commercially available > systems based on the 1GHz AMD Athlon processor will be > available from Compaq Computer Corporation and Gateway. > > Almost time to upgrade again...... > > --------------------- > Skotty Flynn > "skotty20" on WON > > Nascar-Racing-Sims.Com: > http://www.nascar-racing-sims.com > > The Ultimate Sim Racing Directory: > http://www.nascar-racing-sims.com/directory/ >

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SUNNYVALE, CA--March 6, 2000--AMD today reached a computer industry milestone, announcing commencement of shipments of 1GHz AMD Athlon� processors. The first commercially available systems based on the 1GHz AMD Athlon processor will be available from Compaq Computer Corporation and Gateway. Almost time to upgrade again...... --------------------- Skotty Flynn "skotty20" on WON Nascar-Racing-Sims.Com: http://www.nascar-racing-sims.com The Ultimate Sim Racing Directory: http://www.nascar-racing-sims.com/directory/

You know, Ive kinda become un-excited with new processors that come out,.. Not that Im unimpressed with a 1gig machine, but I've really lost that "golly-gee" feeling whenever new hardware comes out, and especially when It comes to processors,... Rememebr when P90s came out? WHOA, so FASST... and then P166s, WHOA,.. no way,.. and then 233's!!!,.. I can run anything! then P2's!!! WHOA!!!!! now way, 300mhz?? what will I do with that speed? now P3s, athalons.... (i think you get the picture....) But a year from now we will all be going "Wow! the 2 Gig processor just came out!!, wish i hadn't bought that 1.6 gig processor..." Sound familiar? Its getting hard to get really excited about faster processors, becuase you know tha a faster one is on the horizon, and after that? you guessed it, another fast processor,... 3D cards are the same deal. Do yourself a favour, get something thats about 4 months old, spend about half the price and get 90% of the performance... With that all said, I sure would love one ;-) don't get me wrong, If i had the cash I'd be all over the thing like Oprah on a baked ham....

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> SUNNYVALE, CA--March 6, 2000--AMD today reached a computer industry > milestone, announcing commencement of shipments > of 1GHz AMD AthlonT processors. The first commercially available > systems based on the 1GHz AMD Athlon processor will be > available from Compaq Computer Corporation and Gateway. > > Almost time to upgrade again...... >

On Wed, 08 Mar 2000 10:36:07 GMT, "Jason Hoehn" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> >You know, Ive kinda become un-excited with new processors that come out,.. >Not that Im unimpressed with a 1gig machine, but I've really lost that >"golly-gee" feeling whenever new hardware comes out, and especially when It >comes to processors,... > >Rememebr when P90s came out? WHOA, so FASST... >and then P166s, WHOA,.. no way,.. >and then 233's!!!,.. I can run anything! >then P2's!!! WHOA!!!!! now way, 300mhz?? what will I do with that speed? >now P3s, athalons.... (i think you get the picture....) > >But a year from now we will all be going "Wow! the 2 Gig processor just came >out!!, wish i hadn't bought that 1.6 gig processor..." Sound familiar?

Yep >s >getting hard to get really excited about faster processors, becuase you know >tha a faster one is on the horizon, and after that? you guessed it, another >fast processor,... 3D cards are the same deal. >Do yourself a favour, get something thats about 4 months old, spend about >half the price and get 90% of the performance... Ive bought top of the line almost every time ive bought a computer in the past, but the cost is outrageous thats for sure. Especially knowing that the price will drop with the next faster processors. I doubt i will be doing that again, but i usually like to upgrade when a processor doubles in mhz from what i currently have which is a P2-400 that i bought in august'98. Sure it still runs everything i own fine but it's starting to feel/sound old :)) I sure would like to have my next upgrade be a 1GHz tho :) I plan on waiting for a while until the 1.3-1.5 GHz or so comes out, then the 1GHz wont be so expensive. --------------------- Skotty Flynn "skotty20" on WON Nascar-Racing-Sims.Com: http://www.nascar-racing-sims.com The Ultimate Sim Racing Directory: http://www.nascar-racing-sims.com/directory/

On Wed, 08 Mar 2000 10:36:07 GMT, "Jason Hoehn" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> >You know, Ive kinda become un-excited with new processors that come out,.. >Not that Im unimpressed with a 1gig machine, but I've really lost that >"golly-gee" feeling whenever new hardware comes out, and especially when It >comes to processors,... > >Rememebr when P90s came out? WHOA, so FASST... >and then P166s, WHOA,.. no way,.. >and then 233's!!!,.. I can run anything! >then P2's!!! WHOA!!!!! now way, 300mhz?? what will I do with that speed? >now P3s, athalons.... (i think you get the picture....) > >But a year from now we will all be going "Wow! the 2 Gig processor just came >out!!, wish i hadn't bought that 1.6 gig processor..." Sound familiar? Its >getting hard to get really excited about faster processors, becuase you know >tha a faster one is on the horizon, and after that? you guessed it, another >fast processor,... 3D cards are the same deal. >Do yourself a favour, get something thats about 4 months old, spend about >half the price and get 90% of the performance... > >With that all said, I sure would love one ;-) don't get me wrong, If i had >the cash I'd be all over the thing like Oprah on a baked ham.... > > >> SUNNYVALE, CA--March 6, 2000--AMD today reached a computer industry >> milestone, announcing commencement of shipments >> of 1GHz AMD AthlonT processors. The first commercially available >> systems based on the 1GHz AMD Athlon processor will be >> available from Compaq Computer Corporation and Gateway. >> >> Almost time to upgrade again...... >> > >

Here's more new i found at yahoo: ------------- Unlike at AMD's Sunnyvale, Calif., offices, it was a quiet Monday newswise at Intel's Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters. That is because Intel has yet to announce its 1GHz Pentium III chip. Sources say, however, that the company will announce its 1GHz Pentium III on Wednesday. The announcement should be accompanied by supporting announcements by PC makers, including Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HWP - news), IBM and Dell Computer Corp. (Nasdaq:DELL - news), all of which will offer 1GHz Pentium III-based PCs. Intel, for its part, is also working on a gigahertz-plus chip. This chip, known by the code name Willamette, is due in the second half of the year. Intel recently demonstrated the chip running at 1.5GHz. The chip, which will begin at gigahertz-plus speeds, will also offer integrated cache, a 400MHz system bus and dual Rambus RDRAM (Rambus direct RAM) memory channels, among other features. It will also include a new multimedia instruction set, similar to the Pentium III's Streaming SIMD Extensions. The instruction set is tuned to help speed video and speech recognition processing, among other things. -------- Their already demonstrating the 1.5 but do you think that it will be the next release after the 1GHz? Not likely, they still need to suck the cash out of people by raising the speed in increments of say 33-66 or 100 mhz.

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 00:44:39 -0000, <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>I feel most sorry for those poor computer-illiterate people who bought a >shiny new Pentium II 450MHz with 64MB RAM just before the Pentium 3 450MHz >came out. One of my parents friends bought their son a system with that spec >back that (cost a couple of grand too), and now their son is already asking >for an upgrade. > >Personally, I'm fully intending to buy a high spec machine of at least >900Mhz, as soon as I can. I've been suffering with a Pentium 200MHz and 32MB >of RAM for about three years. Time for some serious horse power, especially >for GPL.

Suffering is the word. Makes me wonder who to feel more sorry for (hey, at least that other guy can play GPL :). "But in a way, fear is a big part of racing, because if there was nothing to be frightened of, and no limit, any fool could get into a motor car and racing would not exist as a sport." -- Jim Clark

Processor upgrardes-wallet downgrades-performance upgrades a lot less than wallet downgrades. Upgrading short of near double speeds (450 to 700 mhz for example)are a very expensive business. Lots of dollar outlay for mostly smallish speed increases. This "war"between AMD and Intel maybe fun for them but is not really great for us. It is only badly coded software that really needs these speeds at the moment. Someone has to lose this speed comp.between these two companies and then where will we be? Remember the prices we used to pay for 133 pentiums from Intel. No prizes for guessing what will happen if Intel emerges the only real big time player out of this. "Skotty Flynn" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> SUNNYVALE, CA--March 6, 2000--AMD today reached a computer industry > milestone, announcing commencement of shipments > of 1GHz AMD AthlonT processors. The first commercially available > systems based on the 1GHz AMD Athlon processor will be > available from Compaq Computer Corporation and Gateway. > > Almost time to upgrade again...... > > --------------------- > Skotty Flynn > "skotty20" on WON > > Nascar-Racing-Sims.Com: > http://www.nascar-racing-sims.com > > The Ultimate Sim Racing Directory: > http://www.nascar-racing-sims.com/directory/

> You know, Ive kinda become un-excited with new processors that come out,.. > Not that Im unimpressed with a 1gig machine, but I've really lost that > "golly-gee" feeling whenever new hardware comes out, and especially whenIt

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> comes to processors,... > > Rememebr when P90s came out? WHOA, so FASST... > and then P166s, WHOA,.. no way,.. > and then 233's!!!,.. I can run anything! > then P2's!!! WHOA!!!!! now way, 300mhz?? what will I do with that speed? > now P3s, athalons.... (i think you get the picture....) > > But a year from now we will all be going "Wow! the 2 Gig processor just

came > out!!, wish i hadn't bought that 1.6 gig processor..." Sound familiar?Its > getting hard to get really excited about faster processors, becuase youknow > tha a faster one is on the horizon, and after that? you guessed it,another > fast processor,... 3D cards are the same deal. > Do yourself a favour, get something thats about 4 months old, spend about > half the price and get 90% of the performance... That's evolution my friend. I feel most sorry for those poor computer-illiterate people who bought a shiny new Pentium II 450MHz with 64MB RAM just before the Pentium 3 450MHz came out. One of my parents friends bought their son a system with that spec back that (cost a couple of grand too), and now their son is already asking for an upgrade. Personally, I'm fully intending to buy a high spec machine of at least 900Mhz, as soon as I can. I've been suffering with a Pentium 200MHz and 32MB of RAM for about three years. Time for some serious horse power, especially for GPL.

> I sure would like to have my next upgrade be a 1GHz tho :) > I plan on waiting for a while until the 1.3-1.5 GHz or so comes out, > then the 1GHz wont be so expensive. Best of all, you shouldn't have to wait long. Intel are expected to release their 1.5GHz processor line by the end of the year, which isn't long in the scheme of things.

But, Intel's 1 GHz cannot sell as CPU, but whole system, because it's too hysteric to tame. Forwarding are fairly small number of OEM with IBM and HP. Anyway, each real price will drop same range when they arrive market. There are just paper release. Y.Minami <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:8a59ur$9pj$[email hidden]... > And the intel one is cheaper 990 $ compared to AMDエs 1,260 $ > > BR > Thomas Soerensen > GPL Enthusiast of Denmark

I dont think AMD is going to "die", but one thing abou AMD that i found odd was taht when a couple of buddies of mine recently upgraded, they had serious problems with RAM in their AMDs... they couldnt find RAM that was stable enough... Im not dissing AMD im just poiting out the problems these guys had tweaking out their new machines,...

In article <I7Xx4.109804$[email hidden]>, Jason Hoehn <[email hidden]> writes >I dont think AMD is going to "die", but one thing abou AMD that i found odd >was taht when a couple of buddies of mine recently upgraded, they had >serious problems with RAM in their AMDs... they couldnt find RAM that was >stable enough... Im not dissing AMD im just poiting out the problems these >guys had tweaking out their new machines,... >Good point, i built a 600 Athlon system last week (not for me unfortunately) and had to return the RAM (64MbPC-100) cos it wouldn't install Win98 (setup has detected a corrupt cab file). The supplier said it was probably incompatible and sent me some more. But then the PC refused to boot. In the end i just swapped that RAM with some that I've got in a 400 PII and they're both rock solid. I tried running GPL on the Athlon to compare fps with my 300@450 but couldn't get the V3 drivers fixed in the short time I had :( *bugger* -- Mike Buckley Cotswold Pig Development Co Ltd Tel: +44 (0) 1472 371591 Fax: +44 (0) 1472 371208 Mail: [email hidden], [email hidden] http://www.toastyhamster.freeserve.co.uk

<snip> <ship> LOL...like Oprah on a baked ham....now that's funny. Butcher

Jason Hoehn <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:r2qx4.106058$[email hidden]... <snip> > With that all said, I sure would love one ;-) don't get me wrong, If ihad > the cash I'd be all over the thing like Oprah on a baked ham....<ship> LOL...like Oprah on a baked ham....now that's funny. Butcher