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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (115650)6/12/2000 8:57:00 PM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (3) of 1576659
 
Re: Hope I'm not offending anyone, but I think the T-Bird L2 is a dog....

The impression I'm getting is that even Austin yields are better with Thunderbird. After what happened to the K6 when they added on chip L2 I am not disappointed by Thunderbird's per clock performance. I think the jury's out on binsplits until there is a challenge from Intel.

I also like the 750 chipset by the way - it's rock solid.

Let's let Intel go through yield crashes, binsplit disasters and motherboard recalls in order to get an extra 3% performance at a given clock speed. I think AMD has already learned that particular lesson and there is no need to repeat it.

The Thunderbird L2 can be manufactured easily, unlike the K6 L2 and apparently unlike the Coppermine L2.

Besides, isn't man's best friend a dog? And it appears that this dog can hunt. Or maybe it would be better to call it a mongoose since it seems to like hunting coppermines.

:-)

Regards,

Dan
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