Upcoming AMD CPUs

[StealthHawk]

seems like AMD's current plans are to release Barton sometime next year as had previously been speculated by people here. (Claw)Hammer also 1H next year at 2GHz or higher with a 3000+ rating. AMD will provide motherboards for the debut just like they did for the original Athlon.

AthlonXP 2700+'s should be here soon. they are being mass produced as we speak. 2800+ are not being mass produced yet.

[Stavros]

I think I'll be going barton + nForce2
I reckon the Hammer's not going to be that much faster than the barton in 32bit, and its going to be a while before 64bit is supported. Then again, it makes you wonder whether AMD will last that long, as they seem to be hemoraging money these days.

[StealthHawk]

they weren't exactly that profitable before the Athlon chips came out either. in fact, they had been losing money for quite some time.

anyway, Hammer's core should be 5-10% faster clock for clock than either the current AthlonXP or Barton(i forget). additionally, the integrated memory controller is supposed to increase performance by up to 20% because of reduced latencies.

[SavagePaladin]

AMDs stock just rose quite a bit I guess because they foresaw a return to profitability next year due to something like $350 million in costs cut
Apparently due to the partnership with UMC.

I dunno, and if thats not coherent or correct, lemme know.

[Lezmaka]

Originally posted by SavagePaladin
AMDs stock just rose quite a bit I guess because they foresaw a return to profitability next year due to something like $350 million in costs cut
Apparently due to the partnership with UMC.

I dunno, and if thats not coherent or correct, lemme know.

Seemed coherent to me, but then I swear I just saw that "new thread" button down there go from its usual color to red and back

[borntosoul]

well i went from an intel p3 450 to an amd tb 1333 about a year and a half ago and im still happy ,ill upgrade to something at least 3000+ or 3500+ so i can really see a difference ,dont know if its going to be intel or amd ,but i wonna get the whole package ,new mb with pci express and so on

[SavagePaladin]

Originally posted by borntosoul
well i went from an intel p3 450 to an amd tb 1333 about a year and a half ago and im still happy ,ill upgrade to something at least 3000+ or 3500+ so i can really see a difference ,dont know if its going to be intel or amd ,but i wonna get the whole package ,new mb with pci express and so on
A 1333 may not seem all that much slower than an Athlon XP, but the core changes are nice....you'd definately notice, moving to a higher and AXP.
Since you can undoubtedly just plug a new processor in, I'd say go for it.

But, I'm not preaching, do what you like.
I don't know when PCI Express will actually be used, or I might want it too

[borntosoul]

dont need a faster cpu right now ,im holding out till mid next year or late next year ,1333 amd is plenty fast enough for now ,all i need to do is match it with a great video card ,anyone using 512 megs of ram ?is there any difference in performance to 256?