2.5ghz AMD Tbreds....!....?

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MzQw

Quotes from above link:

"We have tested the card on a Pentium 4 2.53GHz system and also an AMD 2.485GHz system. The AMD numbers were done on a yet-to-be-announced CPU based on the Thoroughbred core."

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AMD 2.48GHz (15*165) - EPoX 8K3A+, 1 x 512MB Corsair PC3200 DDR Ram, Maxtor 40GB ATA133 HD, Windows XP Professional; VIA 4n1 Driver v4.42; ATi Catalyst Driver v02.2; NVIDIA Detonator Driver v30.82. This is an overclocked system running with an overclocked AGP bus at 82MHz and PCI bus at 41MHz."

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Rumor's going around at AMDMB.com is that a new T-bred with heatspreaders, and possibly a 333mhz(166) FSB will be announced wednesday...

2.5ghz XP is like... what? a 3ghz P4? 3.1?

All I know is, I want one
Whatever it is, it sounds like it must overclock really well

Sorry

Didn't see the thread/post... I even looked for one before I posted...lol

I musted have missed it.

While I agree, the results somewhat disappoint -seeing as the XP2200 COULD compete the 2.53GHZ in 3dMark 2001, while now in that test, at near 2.5GHZ, it doesn't, makes no sense- the results are also normal in some areas. If some of you looked at the CPU and card scaling from THG's article, you'll see that even jumping from a P3 800MHZ to a P4 2.53GHZ on the Rad 9700, ONLY added 5 FPS or so. So the bottom line is some game benchmarks are never going to reveal this new Tbred's performance. But yes I am skeptical about some results, and would like to know more. However if these are indeed the new overclocker batches, maybe the Tbred was not so bad after all.

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Is the opportunity to earn money by working, free?<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Eden on 08/20/02 03:43 PM.</EM></FONT></P>