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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Charles R who wrote (84326)12/29/1999 8:17:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr  Read Replies (1) of 1573430
 
Chuck - RE: "Tom's article on how AMD is unleashing the potential of the young Athlon platform one step at a time."

That Super Bypass feature sure does improve performance! As the review said, it is almost like getting a higher speed bin processor. I want to see a Cumine 800 vs. Athlon 800 comparison with this feature enabled. It sucks that AMD couldn't get the feature out when the chipset came out. More importantly though, does the KX133 support this feature...

"Looking forward to what a good Athlon + PC133 solution in Q1 and wondering what a good DDR platform can do Thunderbird...."

If Via's team did as good a job as AMD's did with Irongate, the Athlon/KX133 should be more than competitive with Cumine.

And Thunderbird will leave Cumine in the dust, grasping for a spot at the top end.

I think it was Ace's that said a DDR-capable chipset won't come out until Mustang.

Next year, the Athlon will offer superior performance over Cumine. Intel's only hope for the year is Willa-its-original-release-date-be-mette? Either that or hope AMD screws Dresden up. Both are up in the air as far as I'm concerned because I don't know much about either's current status.

And Mustang is still running around in its prairie, performance unknown to us. This thing better increase Athlon performance a good amount IF it is to compete with Willy, IF Willy is what it will be hyped up to be.
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