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To: Elmer who wrote (83614)12/20/1999 12:05:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1572334
 
AMD doing the 800 tomorrow also!?

sharkyextreme.com

"Now the fur is really flying, and thanks to their previously mentioned production capacity advantage, Intel has rapidly accelerated their roadmap again, and is today announcing the availability of not only a 750MHz Pentium III, but also two 800MHz models (one uses a 100MHz bus speed, the other 133MHz).

...

Believe it or not, AMD is also announcing that their 800MHz Athlon CPU is completed, and we think it will start shipping in OEM PC systems shortly into January 2000."

Now this is REALLY getting f**ked up!

But the author of the article also said Intel came out with a .25 633MHZ PIII this year so he just lost credibility in my book...

I guess we'll find the true 800MHz story in not too many more hours.



To: Elmer who wrote (83614)12/20/1999 12:09:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr  Respond to of 1572334
 
Elmer - RE: "Also your comment about the i820 brings into question the claims that prefetch is the sole reason for the jump in FP benchmarks."

Bus speed could also be a factor. Don't forget the 700 system's 100MHz bus vs. 600 system's 133MHZ bus. Tom's tests have already proven the 750 on a 100MHz bus is typically slower than the 733 on a 133MHz bus.

"Imaging how the 512K, 1Meg and up L2 versions will perform!"

Yeah, that should be interesting.