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AMD Announces 'AMD Opteron' as Brand for Next-Generation Processors
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| Apr 24
| AMD announcement
Posted on 04/25/2002 11:33:55 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Looks like Intel has some real competition.
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Well, if its like the Duron, just take the case off your computer and allow it to light your room as it glows white hot.
To: antidemocommie
Well this will need a cooling fan on top of it just like the Athlon, cause it is moving data!!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
If its like the Duron, it will need lake Erie on top of it.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Or, better still, a jug of ice water handy to pour over your main board to cool down the whole system because there is a jet engine with after burners lite mounted to it.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
A whole Eskimo family could stay warm all winter if they had just one Duron based system in their Igloo.
To: antidemocommie
Sounds like you have had a personal experience!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
When doing some major operations on my Duron based system, I have taken a few moments out to roast hotdogs over the pretty white hot glow.
They didnt taste as good as those cooked over coals, but I didn't add any flavoring wood chips for more smoke.
To: antidemocommie
LOL!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I can't wait to get one of these in a gaming rig, heh heh heh.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
To: antidemocommie
A guy I know built an Athlon 1900 on an Abit mainboard a month ago and overclocked the front-side bus voltage frequency to add another few hundred Mhz. Serious gaming platform on the cheap.
After a few days, his no-name whizmo 'Orb'-style CPU fan went out, and the Athlon fried in 0.008 seconds and took the motherboard and GeForce4 MX4600 video adapter along with it.
Total damage: $750. More than twice as much as the cost difference between a cooler running and better performing Intel Northwood-cored P4 2.4Ghz processor that has a thermal shutdown feature.
Athlons benchmark very VERY well, and the price can't be beat.
However, you get what you pay for, and in my pal's case it was 'misery'.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Does this mean I can finally use all the data my 56k modem can put out?
To: The KG9 Kid
I had heard that you do want top drawer cooling devices!
I think these new 64 bit processors are to be built with a .13 micron process so perhaps they will run cooler.
To: The KG9 Kid
Well, its a shame you didnt at least have the time to cook a few burgers over it before it blew out! Darn.
Id file a law suit against the Orb mfger and settle out of court for 5000 dollars.
Im serious.
To: John Jamieson
Only if you keep a bucket of ice on top of it at all times.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Looks like Intel has some real competition. They have for a while, just not very many realized it.
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I like Athlons, but I'm waiting for the 533-Mhz FSB Intel motherboards to come out about the same time the P4 2.6/2.8Ghz chips debut.
I refuse to have so many fans in my rig that it sounds like a Harrier jumpjet on takeoff. That's for AMD people, God bless 'em.
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