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Title: Athlon xp 2600+
Post by: shIva on August 22, 2002, 04:50:08 PM: Referring to www.heise.de amd released the new Athlon xp 2600+ with a clockspeed of 2.133 GHz. might be a cool acceleration for Amithlon systems.

The amd (http://www.amd.com) homepage is not yet updated. will follow soon.

(http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/ciw-21.08.02-000/aufmacher.jpg)

source : heise.de (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/ciw-21.08.02-000/) (sorry : german language)
Title: Re: athlon xp 2600+
Post by: DaveP on August 22, 2002, 04:52:10 PM: Gimme gimme!
Title: Re: Athlon xp 2600+
Post by: Orgin on August 22, 2002, 04:54:53 PM: http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q3/020821/index.html

For some information in English.

/Björn
Title: Re: Athlon xp 2600+
Post by: whabang on August 22, 2002, 05:45:40 PM: I like!
Title: Re: Athlon xp 2600+
Post by: Allen on August 22, 2002, 05:51:30 PM: bugger. There's me just having bought an 1800!

Allen
Title: Re: Athlon xp 2600+
Post by: whabang on August 22, 2002, 05:56:08 PM: Quote
bugger. There's me just having bought an 1800!

LOL! :-D
I feel your pain. When I bought my current Athlon system Slot A was state-of the-art. I had to be certain that I would have a clear upgrade path.
Two days later AMD announced that they were ditching Slot A in favour of Socket A... :-(
Title: Re: Athlon xp 2600+
Post by: redrumloa on August 22, 2002, 05:59:12 PM: Quote
I feel your pain. When I bought my current Athlon system Slot A was state-of the-art.

Hehe it always happens. When I built this system (Thunderbird 850 OC to 980), it was the bees knees. Now it is old hat! :-x
Title: Re: Athlon xp 2600+
Post by: bhoggett on August 22, 2002, 07:07:03 PM: Quote
Hehe it always happens. When I built this system (Thunderbird 850 OC to 980), it was the bees knees. Now it is old hat!

Same here. My 1.4GHz Thunderbird system with a 64MB GeForce2 GTS and 512 MB DDR memory was the bees' knees when I built it last year, and now it's barely mid-range - although only WindowsXP is causing me performance problems; Linux, BeOS, QNX and Amithlon all perform beatifully.

I'll probably be looking to build a new system around Christmas or the new year, when the new-gen graphics cards come out and the CPUs will probably get upgraded again too.

With any luck, the whole sorry Amithlon saga will have been sorted by then.
:-( :-( :-(
Title: Re: athlon xp 2600+
Post by: Allen on August 22, 2002, 08:22:51 PM: Always the way eh!?

In some ways I liked the Amiga way...i.e. no new hardware so I could not get sucked into the upgrade cycle of evil!! :-)

Allen
Title: Re: athlon xp 2600+
Post by: Kronos on August 22, 2002, 09:34:13 PM: Why upgrade ?

I went from K5/166 to K6/233 and to K6-3/400 on the same board,
but it didn't get really faster, just a bit less slow :-o

K6 to AthlonXP1600, that was the boost, and the next x86 I'm
gone buy will be one of the new 64bits with atleast double
performance.
Title: Re: athlon xp 2600+
Post by: Allen on August 22, 2002, 11:06:06 PM: "Why upgrade ?"

Err? WTF? Are you suggesting downgrading? :-)

Allen
Title: Re: athlon xp 2600+
Post by: Kronos on August 22, 2002, 11:08:07 PM: @Allen

Nah just stay where you are until you got all the life possible
out of the beast ...

But then, "downgrading" to an C=-One doesn't sound that bad :-D
Title: Re: athlon xp 2600+
Post by: redrumloa on August 23, 2002, 03:00:47 AM: Quote
But then, "downgrading" to an C=-One doesn't sound that bad

Damn right!

Of course you're probably pissed there is no MorphmodoreOne:-P

jk
Title: Re: athlon xp 2600+
Post by: Kronos on August 23, 2002, 03:05:35 AM: @red

Nah that one is called "Red Bull" ......

... hmmm or was that "Flying Horse" ????

:-D
Title: Re: athlon xp 2600+
Post by: KennyR on August 23, 2002, 04:28:15 AM: Fast? I don't care if it was 5GHz, was the size of a fingernail, didn't create any heat and was sold for two cents a chip: if it can't run OS4 its useless :-D
Title: Re: Athlon xp 2600+
Post by: Hammer on August 23, 2002, 10:28:22 AM: Nice to see AMD’s new flagchip completing with Intel’s latest flagchip again.
Title: Re: athlon xp 2600+
Post by: Hammer on August 23, 2002, 10:32:34 AM: Quote
the next x86 I'm gone buy will be one of the new 64bits with atleast double performance.

Same here…
Title: Re: athlon xp 2600+
Post by: DaveP on August 23, 2002, 03:20:13 PM: Which wont be compatible with IA32 and just going
64 bits doesnt mean double the performance.

@Kronos

You mean flying pig?