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To: kash johal who wrote (84933)1/4/2000 12:13:00 PM
From: Goutam  Respond to of 1572187
 
Kash,

Amusing piece from ACEs -

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"Buy" a Thunderbird, K6-2 533+ or Athlon Ultra! (AMD)
Posted By johan, Tuesday, January 4, 2000 - 4:32:18 PM

Want a 900 MHz Athlon Thunderbird ? Wait until March. What about an Athlon Ultra 800 ? You can buy it in February. Got a tight budget ? Get a K6-2 533+ in February.

A Shop in Switzerland is advertising the Athlon Ultra, Thunderbird and K6-2 533+, and they will arrive soon if we may believe them. Take it with a big grain of salt, I suspect they must have read our article about the CPU's of 2000 pretty well, but the dates on their selling list are a bit optimistic. According to our best sources the Thunderbird will not appear before late april 2000 (which is sooner than AMD has planned). Anyway, always good to see that things are moving ; ) ....

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Goutama



To: kash johal who wrote (84933)1/4/2000 2:54:00 PM
From: Petz  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1572187
 
kash, the conclusin I draw from poor K6-2+/K6-3+ speeds is that AMD is having a hard time getting the cache to run at full speed. Intel recognized this problem early on, which is why CuMines integrated L2 cache actually runs at half speed (but 4X access width of 256 bits).

Petz