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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (28333)	2/13/2001 3:25:59 PM
From: Harvey Allen	Respond to of 275872

Another A7M266 vs. P4 comparison by way of The Register It's been almost 6 months since AMD paper-launched 266-MHz DDR Athlon systems. Since they were officially launched on October 30th, customers have been dying to get their hands on these systems, which promise better performance than the Pentium 4 for about half the price. Sounds too good to be true, right? Unfortunately, yes. Getting your hands on the parts needed to make a 266-MHz FSB DDR Athlon system has been anything but easy in the past few months. Problem One : There was no DDR-SDRAM on the market. Then along came Crucial and Mushkin bringing DDR-SDRAM onto the market at prices comparable to those of PC-133 SDRAM. First with just PC-1600 (PC-100 DDR) memory, but now full PC-2100 (PC-133 DDR) memory is available to end-consumers. Problem Two : There were no DDR motherboards. IWill and Gigabyte entered the market with their first DDR-based motherboards based on the ALi MaGik and AMD 760 chipsets, respectively. We're also starting to see an influx of more AMD 760 boards on their way (hence what you're looking at today). Problem Three : There are no "true" 266-MHz FSB Athlons on the market yet. Most people in the "tweaking/overclocking" community know that if you have a motherboard that supports 266 MHz FSB and clock multiplier adjustments, you can run any chip at 266 FSB. Unfortunately, the majority of the people who buy AMD systems won't be too keen on the idea of "penciling" their Athlon processor, so people have been waiting for the true 266 FSB chips to come out. The last we've heard is that AMD has been stockpiling these 266 FSB chips for sometime now, in anticipation of 266-MHz FSB platforms hitting the market in large volumes. Well, they're here, but still no compatible Athlons on the market. There's nothing physically different with the chip compared to the Athlons that are on the market today, these chips just come with 266-FSB native multipliers, and should come with the "Athlon-C" labeling. Hopefully these chips will show the light of day by the end of this month. C'mon AMD, get it together! gamepc.com