Will AMD Release Higher Clocked Athlons?

I'm thinking about purchasing a 1.4 ghz Athlon but beforehand i'd like to know if AMD will be releasing any faster Athlon's in the near future.

P4 2.0a is coming in month or two. Well i want see what a working P4 looks like.

Nice Nvidia and ATi users get a Cookie.... Yummy

so would you advise waiting til the end of October then? i think i'll go ahead and get my 1.4 athlon now as the new Athlons will obviously start off very pricey.

All i need to do now is decide which motherboard to get, the 3 i'm looking at are: Epox 8k7a+, Abit KG7 and Gigabyte GA-7DXR...i can't decide which to get!

Agreed. Performance-wise, the AMD 761 isn't the best, but the tweaking and stability of the KG7 outweigh that.

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The new ones will be pricey and not all that different from the t-birds. The only REAL difference is full support for SSE. Compare a AthlonMP to a reg. Athlon at the same clock speed and they're not all that different (in terms of performance). The AthlonXP will be a bit of a joke. Only good thing: higher clock speeds, which means they'll be able to compete with high clocked P4's.

-MP Jesse

"Signatures Still Suck"

MPJesse, I believe you are mistaken.

At a given clock speed, the new Athlon MP/XP will be as much as 10% faster as compared to an equally clocked Athlon without the SSE instructions. This is in regards to apps that use the instructions (most do).

MP the Palomino core offers several improvem ents over Thunderbird

1) SSE support
2) lower power consumption (less heat generated by roughly 20-25%)
3) Redesigned core to improve internal eficiency
4) Data prefetch

These 4 things combine to give Palomino (in MP form right now) a 10% average performance boost. Yes, some things will only be marginally faster per clock, but other things will be MUCH faster per clock.

Of course, we won't know how all this translates to the desktop versions of the CPU until it ships next month and benchmarks are presented by reviewers.

Mark-

When all else fails, throw your computer out the window!!!

follow this link:
<A HREF="http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q2/010605/760mp-06.html" target="_new">http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q2/010605/760mp-06.html</A>

Actually performance advantages are more like in the 1-5% arena. Hardly worth noting. Again, the only real advantage the Palomino has is scalability.

-MP Jesse

"Signatures Still Suck"

No offense, but do not put all your faith in one site alone. Tom's is reputable, but I feel myself questioning the outputs of those benchmarks. I have seen and read on numerous other sites showing the Athlon MP (Palamino) showing MUCH (relatively speaking) improved preformace. 10% was range was not uncommon, just an average. Considering SSE is used in more than a few applications, this will be quite a big boost in "free" speed. Also, the new incorporated data prefetch should become a lot more apparent in it's speed boost as time goes on.

In addition, are you forgetting the lower power consumption and lower heat output?

Agreed.

october 12th is the date i believe...

if in doubt blame microsoft...

Agreed.

~Matisaro~
"The Cash Left In My Pocket,The BEST Benchmark"
~Tbird1.3@1.5~

MELTEDDICK you rank right up there with the Internets greatest INTEL dick suckers.... Do you get a check from INTEL to be such a blind lemming... noone gives a [-peep-] about your opinion.... I am buying a nFORCE and a palamino 1.533 soon as it hit the stores next month... I am sure there is plenty of people who are also planning AMD RIGS.... and no amount of FUD or BS or idiotic non-technical propoganda you spread will stop it.

If you love INTEL so much... buy a P4 with your INTEL STOOGE CHECK u get every month.. enjoy the HOLLOW-HERTZ and shut the [-peep-] up.

I have seen much much more hardcore INTEL Stooges than u convert to AMD.... you are not even worth the spittle under the bottom of the shoe of most of the posters here

If you love INTEL... u can preach about how great INTEL is... thats fine... but to sit around all day bashing AMD ... giving AMD no credit.. denying facts... makes u a PAID INTEL SHILL and thats all you are

So the whole forum should consider you a bought and paid for INTEL bitch ...and everything you say is highly suspect at best

LoL, I think pope took care of this one.

~Matisaro~
"The Cash Left In My Pocket,The BEST Benchmark"
~Tbird1.3@1.5~

"typical of an AMD user, 3 mainboards swapped out, 4 cpus burn outs, 10 different cooling solutions"

Hey Meathead read my sig before u judge
u notice most builders are first timers that have problems

Blame the newbies not the technology

Hey pal read "RE: AMDMELTDOWN"
It wasnt to you so settle down jacka$$

Blame the newbies not the technology

I believe I started a trend I shall now continue:

In reference to Raystonn's remark:

Agreed.


Now, the first time I built my !AMD! system, I had no problems whatsoever. Now you can get rid of saying only "newbies" and keep it to "labotomized newbies."

Athlon mp's only can be bought at 1.2ghz, since palomino will probably be smp enabled AND they will be cheaper than their equavelent mp counterpart, I would just get 2 palominos and run the dualie setup.

(that is if I wasnt getting the palomino and kt266a mobo in a month cause I sold my wifes athlon classic 750 system to a friend and am giving my wife my 1.33 kt7a raid system, W00t!)

~Matisaro~
"The Cash Left In My Pocket,The BEST Benchmark"
~Tbird1.3@1.5~

Well if thats the case than I appologize

Blame the newbies not the technology

He doesn't use Babel Fish. I wish he did.

You're right, the only thing is when he links to articles. Sometimes those are useful, and a couple of times he's actually made intelligent comments that started some good conversation about the topic. Don't ask me to find an example, talk about finding a needle in a haystack

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Nope, he replied to one of my posts last night merely with "LOL". No clue what that was supposed to mean. I'm glad he's not gone. Every village/forum needs an idiot.

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Wait, so because some people think an nVidia product is better than it really is, you'll never buy something from AMD?

I for one realized a long time ago the nForce is nothing but hot air.

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LOL, popping off the lid and looking at the circuts under a microscope LOL, do you have any clue as to how those things work, just looking at the metal layer tracings dosent tell you how the cpu works, oh and you cant just pop the "lid" and look at them either.

As for nforce, it gives a nice boost, not as much as a kt266a but the integrated sound is a sticking point for me, I want to ditch sb but I also like the 3% boost kt266a has over the nforce, decisions decisions. Plus the kt266a is coming out sooner.

~Matisaro~
"The Cash Left In My Pocket,The BEST Benchmark"
~Tbird1.3@1.5~