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To: crazyoldman who wrote (113496)5/30/2000 10:25:00 PM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1574376
 
crazyoldman,

I am not sure if this was posted, but here is another thing from amdzone.com

Thomas sent me what he says is information he received from Polywell about the Thunderbird:

we've had the Thunderbird for more than a week now for testing - last I heard - it's not fully functional - we are getting more CPU's in case the ones we've already received is bad. Should be ready soon - just don't know when AMD will let us have it for distribution.

Quite interesting, and it also casts serious doubts on the recent Thunderbird 700 benchmarks we saw especially considering there will not be a 700MHz Thunderbird.

Did AMD send crippled samples out to maintain the real Thunderbirds secret? It is a little risky, because there can be subtle differences between the samples and real Thunderbirds, resulting in potential problems.

Joe



To: crazyoldman who wrote (113496)5/31/2000 3:45:00 AM
From: Gopher Broke  Respond to of 1574376
 
RE: TBird benchmark discrepancies

Remember the same thing happened with early Athlon benchmarks. AMD somehow nobbled the engineering samples they shipped to mobo manufacturers knowing that benchmarks would leak out. That was partly the reason why Intel was caught off guard. I will not pay any attention to benchmarks until we know they are on production chips.


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