| [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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| 1GHz Athlon released : Comment 30 of 32 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by jim on 14-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 29 (Brad Jacobsen):
Well I've got bunches of Amiga legacy hardware and no apologies. Let's see if anyone is still using the Athlon processor 10 years from now--
hopefully they will be that would be a good thing in the face of all the induced obsolesence.
Anyway-- I don't consider the Athlon cheap, unless that is I'm trying to upgrade me old amigas to PPCs.
The big problem with taking any real advantage of the Athlon or any other AMD product is that the
motherboards they use just aren't rel compatible with a lot of excellent video or affordable video editing hardware
without relly digging into what the manufacturer of the card says is OK and that custom drivers are available for--
such as the new matrox RT2000 DV editing card. It's gonna give the NT Toaster a real run for the money because
the NT Toaster only digitizes with no compression and doesn't accept Firewire -- which really is a great thing for video input.
The AMD people really screwed people like me who investeded in their K6 series only to find that all the adds about the processor were
IMHO a bunch of crap because the floating point performance has proven dismal.
AMD rewarded us by making absolutley no upgrade path on the motherboards, etc.
As far as I'm concerned THEY LIED through their vendor advertising which promised PentiumII and better performance!
Whatever, I'm still watching the Amiga closely. I just want something to happen Fast!!! |
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