Wat viel te verwachten is nu dus ook gebeurd: AMD heeft op de Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas een 800MHz versie van de Athlon aangekondigd. Daarmee zit het weer op gelijke hoogte als Intel, die vorige maand een 800MHz Pentium III aankondigde. De grap van dit verhaaltje is dat de Athlon 800 waarschijnlijk eerder verkrijgbaar zal zijn dan de PIII-800...
AMD's new 800-MHz Athlon, announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, matches the clock speed of Intel's fastest Pentium III chip and actually outperforms the Pentium III in certain benchmark tests, according to analysts. Both IBM and Compaq Computer announced PCs to go along with the chip, while Hewlett-Packard opted for the AMD K6-2 for notebooks for the first time.[...] A Dell Computer salesperson today quoted more than a month build time for an 800-MHz Pentium III consumer system. Compaq lists 800-MHz Presario consumer models on its Web site, but a salesperson today said the company is not taking orders because processors are not yet available.
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After setting all the jumpers on the IWill Slotket, we went to work. At first with default cooling, we stuck
the chip in a Soyo SBA+IV motherboard, which ran the chip perfectly. Using Soyo's handy-dandy BIOS
menu, we were able to get the chip at STABLE levels up to 667 MHz. We consider stable when the chip
can run Prime95 overnight, and run Quake3 and 3DMark loops until the sun comes up on the next work
day. That's a 166 MHz overclock, with retail cooling and default voltage, pretty incredible by all
accounts. It just seems like yesterday when people were considering the Celeron 300A to 450 overclock
a miracle, and now a 150+ MHz is a daily occurrence. Ahh, those were the days.
The announcement, which came during Jobs' keynote at the
Macworld trade show here, caps a two-and-a-half-year search on
Apple's part to find a full-time chief. Jobs has run Apple since the
middle of 1997 as the "interim" CEO and has resisted calling the
position anything more than a temporary solution.
After testing all three processors, we found that one was stable
at 750MHz (7.5 x 100MHz), and the other two were stable at
700MHz (7 x 100MHz). The 700MHz processors simply
couldn't POST at higher speeds, and attempts at 750MHz
allowed us to become very familiar with the motherboard's
CMOS reset jumper. Adjusting the voltages didn't help, and we
decided to run a couple other tests.