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Eye of the Night at 02:20am 10/20/2004
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Might be because of the memory controller - if they base the rating
on things like Drystone and Whetstone...the integrated memory
controller doesn't have much effect on that. Also, I think AMD has
been conservative to avoid overrating their processors, as that
gives bad press...
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redman jones at 09:21pm 10/19/2004
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AMD say they base their model numbers on the Thunderbird core (which
was used from about 800mhz-1400mhz with the K7 if i remember
correctly) not the thoroughbred core.
Makes you wonder why an A64 3000+ is faster than an Axp 3000+ when
they're supposed to offer the same relative performance...
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Karnak at 09:14pm 10/19/2004
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Doh!!!
Having read the article a bit it seems that in this case the FX-53
is becoming the Athlon64 4000+
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Karnak at 09:12pm 10/19/2004
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As I understand it they discontinue the older FX series chips when a
new speed grade is introduced. That's what they did when the
introduced the Fx-53, the FX-51 ceased production.
It makes sense from a monetary standpoint. They have their top end
gaming CPU and they lock you in for buying a chip that gives them a
high ASP. I thik they were getting bit hard in back when people
would buy a Athlon five or six speed grades below the top and just
overclock it to the same as their top price offering. They had to
figure out a system that pushed people to buy those top end,
expensive procs that pull in the dollars for them
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Spidy (View my Profile) at 02:33pm 10/19/2004
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hmm.. would have been nice if you guys threw in some x800XT
benchmarks with the n-Force4 chipset. We already know how it works
on Intel's side, would have been cool to look at it from AMD's.
Sans SLI of course :P
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Yoshi (View my Profile) at 12:27pm 10/19/2004
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It will be intresting to see how they price the FX-53 after the
Athlon 64 4000+ hits the market. It could end up that the FX-53 will
be the best value for the preformance gamer.
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Yoshi (View my Profile) at 12:23pm 10/19/2004
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No. I think that it means that they can make the nForce 4 chipset
work with a 754 or a 939. Though a 754 will not work on a 939.
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Anonymous at 11:45am 10/19/2004
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This is probably a stupid question but does this mean you can put a
754 pin processor in a 939 socket?
"All nForce4 variants are pin-compatible with one another,
providing motherboard manufacturers with a seamless
infrastructure."
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Eye of the Night at 10:29am 10/19/2004
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Well, it could be an even older core they're comparing performance
to - one of the Athlon cores, in any case. And there's nothing wrong
with comparing to an older chip...as long as all processors are
compared to that same old chip with their ratings, you can also use
those ratings to compare them to eachother, which is what AMD wants
it's customers to do.
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