| [News] 1GHz Athlon released | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 09-Mar-2000 21:57 GMT by Christian Kemp | 32 comments
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Sauro quotes BoingWorld: According to the AMD website the Athlon 1GHz chip has been released, and the first boxes that will be available will come from Compaq & Gateway. You can read a review of the new Athlon chip here. See AMD's web site too.
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| Posted by Jofre Furtado on 09-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 12 (Jofre Furtado):
Hey, everyone- stop bitchin-
The fact is that yes, the Athlon is a piece of sh** x86 CPU, but wintel machines only suck because Windows doesn't know it's recycle bin from it's ass. If you stuck the Tao OS or equivelant that knew HOW to use the hardware, it would be ALOT faster. Now, the CPU- it sucks compared to the Motorola PPC family- sorry. Running the same OS, it is still faster. They have what we call co-processing, alot better than x86's versions and parallel processing isn't not accomplish by IBM/compats- you only get about 500-550MHz if you put two x86 CPU's @450 together. Motorola/Ibm's PPC architecture is more efficient and literally adds the speed effieciently- AND haven't we forgotten the fact that x86 boards only go as high as 266MHz overclocked??? Here's another analogy for you- Would you stick 700 Horsepower V8 inside a Sable Wagon? Of course not, the damn thing'd fall apart- apply that knowledge to the fabulous x86 world. Any IBMers that come in here, be warned - you guys are out. Don't even get us started on your crap machines that didn't even have the common sense to survive the millenium. And my Dad's 040/CGX Amiga 3000 will beat the hell out of your Athlon garbage. As far as I'm concerned, the Windows people are part of the Bill Gates' Borg collective- One mind, one thought- make money, and make alot. At least the Amiga has been and always will be innovative- It survived over a decade of no development and still out performed Windows, let's see them try that... |
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