AMD Thunderbird 1.2 GHz beats Intel Silly

By SKillBot October 18, 2000 3:08 PM

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What do you do when you have record volume sales, your best chip is clocked faster than Intel's greatest, and your stock price isn't going up? If you're AMD, you take the gloves off, drop your price even more, and come out swinging.?With the release of AMD's new 1.2GHz Athlon, which surprisingly costs less than $500, AMD is making a major power play for the x86 processor market.?We have ringside seats and in this review, we are going to bring you a blow-by-blow report.?


With the Athlon 1.2GHz, AMD has a 200MHz lead over Intel's last successful release, the Pentium III 1GHz (their 1.13GHz has been recalled after flaws were discovered).?Intel's Pentium 4 is about a month and a half away, so AMD will have a clock speed lead for quite a while, but will they have a performance lead as well? In order to find out, we ran a full suite of benchmarks and used the processor to see how well it works.?Read on too see what we found out.?

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RE: AMD Thunderbird 1.2 GHz beats Intel Silly   reply

Posted by Acheron (denny@dtheatre.com) on October 18, 2000 3:47 PM

But you can't overclock an Thuderbird!

(well, without getting out the silver paint pen and soldering iron, and bending pins...)

RE: RE: AMD Thunderbird 1.2 GHz beats Intel Silly   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 18, 2000 9:51 PM

At least T'birds are available!...Lets see you overclock a P3 1.13 G....wait a sec..intel doesnt have one out!!!
As for P4....hummm...nobody's ever had one to try
hah!