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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: bloom25 on August 21, 2002, 12:19:00 AM
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AMD launches the 2400+ and 2600+ today. The very interesting part is that they are proving to overclock very well. Tom's Hardware has one running at 2.8 GHz true clock speed!
For reference the XP 2200+ runs at 1800 MHz true, the 2600+ runs at 2.133 GHz true.
The 2600+ will probably not hold the performance crown long, as Intel launches the 2.8 GHz P4 next week. The fact that the Athlon is overclocking so well means that AMD will be able to continue to stay with Intel.
I mention this because those looking to build systems right now will want to wait about a week, as prices on current CPUs are going to fall by a significant amount.
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that's great!
my Xp2000 is now down 50% from what I paid for it :(
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The beat goes on...
What would be a good motherboard choice for the 2600+???
What chipset?
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They've only released demos (ala Intel with the 1GHz release). Its not supposed to be available to the masses until September some time. Anandtech showed it being pretty side by side with the 2.53 GHz P4.
The 2.8 GHz P4 is supposed to be released next Monday. I guess we'll have to wait and see if that's just a paper release too.
AKDejaVu
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Gunther I would recommend going with the Abit KX-7 motherboard.
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Wonder if my MSI will take that puppy, Bloom
Been very happy with this MSI board, only oddity is the sound chip...AHVoice dont like the mic
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The platforms that support the XP 2400 and 2600+ are the nForce boards and VIA KT333 for sure. There's no word on support from other platforms.
Benchmarks indicate a virtual tie in performance overall between the XP 2600+ and 2.533 GHz P4. The 2.8 GHz P4 will probably be slightly faster overall. It's not like in the past where the rating system was very conservative. In the past an XP 1800+ easily beat the 2 GHz Willamette core P4.
DejaVu is right that it is sort of a paper release. I wouldn't expect to see large quantities of these 2 processors available until early to mid September. I think AMD just "released" them now to avoid appearing to be too far behind Intel when they release the 2.8 P4 next week. A supplier site I have access to indicates the 2.8 P4 will be available to order on September 6th. It also looks like the existing P4s are going to get serious price cuts. The 2.533 P4 will be priced within $60 of the 2600+ Athlon.
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nForce2 and 2600+ SCHWING
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http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1690
Hehehe
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Originally posted by AKDejaVu
http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1690
Hehehe
Way overpriced.
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Yah... I knew you'd say that cause you got nothing else to cling to! Things are returning to normal.
HAHAHAHAHA!
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No, dont think I'm biased to any of the companies, that intel cpu rocks.
But its way overpriced. Of course if money was no object I'd get the new P4.
But if money wasnt the object I'd be flying a 3/4 P-51D replica and shooting pepper spray bottles with expensive firearms.
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I do like the "overpriced" nomicker placed on the Pentium processors. Let's wait just a little bit and see how long AMD is willing to sell their processors at a loss.
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Maybe someday they will raise prices and Intel will go cheaper in wich case I'll go intel, like the good old Celeron 366 @ 550mhz days.
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Don't fret about your processor being cheaper Eagler. You buy it to play games, that's all. I have an 1800XP and quite happy with it tho it can be bought for peanuts now. What I do is skip a few generations before upgrading. Wait as long as you possibly can. I have a Geforce3 Ti500. Next time I upgrade it will be Geforce6 or 7! Lets face it, AH still runs ok on my old PIII600 Geforce2 GTS.
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Well I know I can't afford a high end Intel CPU and I have a really hard time buying one that is in the upper $100 range also. That is why I bought my AMD T-Bird 1.4GHz last fall and will probably wait till after Christmas to upgrade the box to a KT333 chipset motherboard/CPU combo.
I just can't see spending nearly the entire budget I place on myself for just the CPU and Motherboard like you have to with Intel. When I worked in a shop and could get the benefits of very inexpensive CPU's and motherboards then I would still go with AMD. Because Intel would still be over $400 for just the processor and we would sell them at nearly $700 and that was in 1998-1999/2000.
Plus you can't count on Intel still attempting to use the same type of socket to move into the next CPU line. They are always changing the way the pins are on the chip and that makes it expensive to want to keep upgrading each year or so like some of us do. I just can't justify it to myself to have to upgrade my motherboard if I want to step up a couple of hundred MHz in CPU speed. I guess that is why I stuck with a Slot 1 AMD 700MHz and 1GHz Athlon for nearly two years before going to the T-Bird.
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Anyone seen a 2600+ yet?
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A Link To Purchas One (http://www.tccomputers.com/apps/productpresentation/index.php?product_id=AMDXP2600P)
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A link to order one.
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I sure havent seen one at my store yet.
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I'm holding a 2400 right now.
The 2600 is "order upon request" at http://www.tccomputers.com