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To: combjelly who wrote (57294)	10/5/2001 11:52:35 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) of 275872

Combjelly, <The slowest XP is at 1.33GHz and the fastest Athlon is 1.4GHz, yet AMD wants to sell the 1.33GHz XP for more money. As a result, it needs to have a bigger "number".> Intel never had this problem when transitioning from Covington (cacheless Celeron) to Mendocino (Celeron w/ cache). The only thing that distinguished the two at the same speed was an 'A' suffix on the MHz, as in "300A" vs. "300". Same thing with the transition from Katmai (Pentium III w/ off-chip cache) to Coppermine (Pentium III w/ on-die cache). Oh, and don't forget AMD's transition from K75 (Athlon w/ off-chip cache) to Thunderbird. AMD didn't feel the need to come up with an arbitrary naming scheme, even though T-bird performed better clock-for-clock than K75. Any excuse that "quantispeed" is meant to be compared with other Athlon processors is a smokescreen. Tenchusatsu

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