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XP 2400+ and 2600+ in two weeks

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The chipmaker will introduce, at a minimum, an Athlon XP 2400+ and an Athlon XP 2600+ for desktop PCs toward the end of the month

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AMD is also evaluating whether to increase the speed of the chip's front-side bus

CNET Article

2800+ Barton later this year...512KB L2 and likely 166 FSB.( I guess so, if they are considering 333 Palominos):drool:

Clawhammer in finishing stages, shipping to PC makers (H-P :shrug: ) this year...too us early next year. :drool:

i'm just going to pray to god that my 760MP chipset will support an MP Barton... lol

The Opteron prototypes/samples are already out, but they're only running at 800 MHz.

To a few people's surprise, AMD annouced the Athlon XP 2400+ and the Athlon XP 2600+, today!

There's speculation that the next one, Athlon XP 2700+ will have the Barton core, with 512kb Level 2 cache, 333 FSB, and maybe even another surprise!

333 BA-BY!!!!!

Boo-yeah.

Scratch that, not until 2800+?

Hmmm.

More L2?

I was having lunch yesterday with the regional Dell Systems Consultant ( guy who specs out our server rigs at the state). I was asking him about Dell and AMD.

he said "Dell knows whats hot and whats not, and one thing they know for sure is AMD in a server is not hot at all, Intel is where the confidence is. it may be cheaper to get an AMD, but for a few bucks more, getting a Xeon is just so much more soothing to our customers"

I agree with his apprasial of the situation... I wouldnt buy a server for my enterprise network here at the State data center with AMD chips in it ( at this point in the game atleast)... AMD's not a stable company compared to Intel.

For my machines? AMD are just fine! I dig AMD's good's... just not in the servers that run a few thousand nodes.

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Intel became known for perfecting the "paper-launch" with the Pentium III, in response to overwhelming performance from AMD's Athlon.

Perhaps with a similar goal in mind - to steal some of Intel's thunder - AMD is "releasing" their 2400+ and 2600+ CPUs well before they hit mass production. The CPUs are sampling now but retail availability isn't expected until September with volume shipments occurring sometime between now and then.

They better watch themselves with this, or they'll shoot themselves in the foot.

They build us up a month-6 weeks before we can get our hands on these, and I for one, find myself wanting one. If the retail pieces start rolling out in September, let's say the 2nd week, it will be at least the 2nd week of October before it'll hit the shelves of any stores I deal with. (2100+ is the top retail piece around here right now, with 2200+ 'coming soon')

By mid-late October likely, the 2800+, with 512KB L2 (and 166 fsb?) will be making it's "launch", and I'll be saying hold on...I'm not going to buy the 2600+, when the new one is coming out now...

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SOURCES SUGGEST that AMD will use optimisations developed for its Hammer processors in its Barton cores when that product hits the streets, probably at the end of this year.

This will allow AMD to do better things with its up-and-coming successor core to Thoroughbred and the additional cache is just one element in the equation.

...and the plot thickens.