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To: Mani1 who started this subject	8/21/2002 2:57:11 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (2) of 275872

HardOCP's review: hardocp.com Among other things, it includes this price table & comments: Model 2600+ $297 each Model 2400+ $193 each Model 2200+ $183 each Model 2100+ $174 each Model 2000+ $155 each Model 1900+ $139 each Model 1800+ $130 each Model 1700+ $114 each Intel is going to hate that price point, as it will surely get AMD more business. Cool running AXPs are going to get the enthusiast, the SI, and the OEM's attention as well. Nice to see they are ditching the 66MHz increments of progressive scaling for their CPUs. I think the differentiation was not great enough to warrant the cost associated with it. Here's the conclusion: Comparing a Pentium 4 2.53 DDR333 system to a DDR333 AthlonXP 2600+ box, it is pretty obvious that the AthlonXP lives up to and beyond its "2600" rating. Moving onto RDRam boxes of the 16-bit and 32-bit variety the "2600" does not so obviously earn its stripes. Then again, most of your folks are not buying RDRam even when you are investing in Pentium 4 systems so it is damn near a moot point to even bring an RDRam system into the equation. RDRam boxes will soon be gone from the desktop segment anyway, so for argument purposes, let's focus on DDR platforms. Sticking with DDR Ram in your system the 2600+ will certainly be the CPU you want to go with for an enthusiast desktop system for gaming and tweaking. This is not to say that there are not still some Pentium 4 bargains out there in the extremely OCable 1.6As and 1.8As. What gets me more excited about this 2600+ is the fact that the 2400+ is most likely the "same" core. The 2400+ could quickly turn into a low-priced OCing beast in its own rights. And talking about cores, what the hell has AMD done with this Thoroughbred. We have overclocked core temperatures running up to 50 degrees F cooler than what we did with the previous 2200+ variety of TBred. AMD has been hard at work refining their core logic architecture or process and the new cool-running Thoroughbred is going to be welcomed by many with open arms. You still will need to cool very well to get the OCs that we have shown here but it is certainly nice to know it is there should you care to take a trip down OC Lane. If the retail AthlonXP shows up with the abilities we have seen here it will be a sure favorite as soon as someone figures out to unlock the multipliers. Kudos to AMD for taking care of the OCers out there and giving us some headroom to once again play around. I can't wait to get hold of a 2400+. Petz

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