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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (120734)7/24/2000 1:27:13 AM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (4) of 1573462
 
Paul,

I took a trip to Fry's today. Lot's of 1GHz and 900 MHz Athlon systems on display. A few 850MHz systems were left, but they were all on clearance. It seems likely that 900MHz is the current low end for Athlon. I wonder where it tops out?

AMD's AThwiper would have required a larger power supply and and excessive cooling (for X-box) - necessitating a larger enclosure and greatly increased manufacturing costs for Microsoft.

X-box is supposed to be in the 650-700MHz range. You could take a 900MHz Athlon, drop the voltage way down, and run it at very low power underclocked at 700MHz.

Scumbria

BTW:The fastest PIII at Fry's was an 866MHz "Manager's special". After that 733MHz was the top of the line PIII.
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