Anand Lal Shimpi heeft een review gepost van de 900, 950 en 1000MHz Athlon, die vandaag ook officieel gereleased zijn. Om de Athlon's op deze snelheden aan de praat te krijgen heeft AMD weer aan de L2 cache divider gesleuteld, die ditmaal op 1/3 gezet is, (333MHz voor de 1GHz Athlon dus). Daarnaast is de voltage wat opgekrikt naar 1.80v. Omdat er voor deze processors nog steeds gebruik is gemaakt van de K75 core scalen ze vij normaal t.o.v. van de langzamere Athlon's. Het wachten blijft dus op de Thunderbird die de Athlon zal voorzien van full speed on-die L2 cache.
At 1GHz the Athlon is quite impressive as it is, but it's still not as fast as we'd like it to be. For users other than those in the professional arena where every last bit of performance counts and influences how well you can do your job, most of us can wait until the Thunderbird is released in the next 2 - 3 months and truly redefines performance for the Athlon. Until then, for overclockers especially, it makes the most sense to go out and purchase a lower clocked Athlon at a cheaper price, invest in an overclocking card and try to get as close to 1GHz as possible.
For those that want the hottest Athlon on the block, 1GHz systems will be available shortly with CPUs due out next quarter not to mention the 900/950MHz parts that should be available this month. For the patient or budget restricted, the Thunderbird will be every bit worth the wait if you can manage to control yourself while these three new CPUs go on sale.
As for Intel, AMD just served, the ball is in Intel's court now. Later this week they will respond with a 1GHz announcement of their own without deviating from their current plan to mass produce 1GHz Pentium III's in Q3-2000. Until then, the monitors at AMD are displaying a 'Waiting for reply...' [break]Voor een second opinion kun je trouwens ook even langs gaan bij Sharky Extreme waar ook een 1GHz Athlon werd getest. Voor beide reviews werd overigens gebruik gemaakt van een Asus K7V KX133 moederbord, waar Anand deze week nog een review van zal plaatsen:[/break] We unfortunately weren’t allowed to talk about the board until now, but now that we can, it’s time to say that this motherboard is a very solid KX133 board. While it’s a microATX board, a full ATX version is due out soon, the K7V, and it should perform just as well. The K7V-RM is so solid that AMD even chose to outfit their evaluation systems with the motherboard which is a position previously held by the AMD 750 based Gigabyte GA-7IX. Expect a review of the K7V-RM this week.
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