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To: Scumbria who wrote (131294)3/30/2001 8:40:22 AM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Thunderbird test at Chip-Online;

It was stable through all benchmarks, used only air cooling, and they ran it at 1.6GHZ for the tests.

This is AMD's old core, on .18, without benefit of SOI.

chip-online.com

Conclusion:
The CHIP Online testcenter at CeBIT managed to jack up the 1.333MHz Thunderbird to 1.600 MHz - without any fancy cooling measures. With these settings, AMD's lead increased even more in contrast to the fastest current Intel CPU, the Pentium 4 with 1,500 MHz.

The benchmark results further prove that the Athlon with 1,200 MHz can also keep the P4 in its place. That is probably part of the reason why AMD was hesitant to launch the new version with 1,333 MHz.

The new Athlon CPU is forcing Intel to catch up. Looks like Intel has its work cut our for itself - as we're writing this article in out Cebit test lab, Intel is demo-ing an air-cooled Pentium 4 in their booth, running at 2,000 Mhz (!) - but unfortunately not available for benchmarks. Too bad. At least it seems as if we can soon compare Athlon and Pentium 4 on a per-MHz-basis again; Palomino will make sure of that.
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