<It seems that Tom's Hardware has the Athlon, THE FASTEST CHIP IN ALL THE LAND, clocking in at 700 and 750 MHz. Not only was it as stable "as a rock" but it did not need additional cooling.>
First of all, Tom never told us how to overclock the Athlon. That in itself should raise some flags of suspicion, except to Tom's target audience which consists mainly of rowdy AMD fans.
Second, I would never consider something like that to be as "stable as a rock." I clocked my Pentium II 266 to 300 MHz for a while. Everything seemed to run rock solid for weeks, until just recently when a few disk corruption errors forced me to uninstall entire games and application suites. I can't say that the overclocking was the primary factor, but it could have been.
Third, Coppermine is coming out in late October, and in respectable speeds. You can bet on it.
Fourth, Athlon is using some 0.18 micron methods to achieve its current high clock speeds. AMD's transition to the 0.18 micron process won't buy Athlon as much clock speed as Intel's transition will buy for the Pentium III.
And fifth, we INTC investors are currently enjoying all-time highs in the stock price. Why isn't AMD, even after all of the Athlon hoopla?
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