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To: dale_laroy who wrote (34013)3/28/2001 7:31:59 PM
From: andreas_wonischRead Replies (2) | Respond to of 275872
 
Dale, Re: The sweet spot is generally well below the peak shippable speed grade.

AMD's sweet spot in Dresden must be at 1.2 GHz or greater. It tried my new 1 GHz AXIA Athlon out with the voltage set to 1.30V (can't go lower in the BIOS), and it did still work! I ran Prime98 and 3DMark2001 for two hours, and not a single crash. So it's probably a downbinded 1.3 GHz CPU. The new stepping must do wonders to bin-splits.

Andreas

PS: At 1.30V the 1 GHz Athlon consumes only around 30W according to my calculations. That means it's on par with the mobile Pentium III (1 GHz). AMD could add Power Now! to these CPUs and sell them as mobiles. They wouldn't even need Palomino...



To: dale_laroy who wrote (34013)3/29/2001 2:56:42 AM
From: Paul EngelRespond to of 275872
 
Re: "The sweet spot is generally well below the peak shippable speed grade. If Intel ships 1.7 GHz, the sweet spot will probably be about 1.5 GHz. "

Yep - and Intel already has plenty of these in production.


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