anyone seen "proper" tests of this thing yet?

[Testin da Cable]

not just anything...this thing! tdc is tempted....yeeeeesssssss indeed

 

[Jonty]

It seems all I do is post links from the FiringSquad Anyway, they have reviewed the 3200+ and were impressed with it (90%). No doubt there will be many other reviews going live today. It seems cool, but I have a feeling the 3.2Ghz P4, especially with it's 800Mhz FSB, should nudge Intel back in front when it's released. Whatever the case, I dare so both chips are exorbitantly priced

Kind Regards

 

[Deadmanwalking]

And i only just got my 3000xp

*cries*

Ah well

 

[Testin da Cable]

well, that P4 is at least $200 over the AMD, not to mention the ram that will have to go with it. that translates as €200....and I can buy a lot of beer for 200 euros...

 

[Will]

That XP is waaaaay too expensive. Is anyone unhappy with what is already in their box? My XP2000+ still chugs through everything I need. So does the XP1700+ in my server. I don't need to fastest and greatest any more, so I'll be giving it a miss.

 

[nath]

Man, I still *hate* the new amd naming convention. It's such a challenge to find out the actual Mhz. I don't care that it equates to that much on a Pentium. Surely the performance of the chips is gunna vary between releases, and hence the best thing to go by is actual Mhz. The whole point is to get people to think that they're buying a 3200mhz chip, because it works out as fast as the Intel chip of 3200mhz. In my opinion, better chip or otherwise, that's false advertising and it angers me lots.

>:|

 

[Jonty]

The naming convention saga is quite interesting, but it all boils down to the fact that Mhz isn't an effective way of measuring performance. Some time ago now Intel proposed a new system, that would take into account a variety of factors and produce a figure that would allow genuine comparisons to be made (a bit like 3DMark). Unfortunately AMD agreed in theory, but dismissed the proposals. Now AMD wishes to change the naming conventions but are having a hard time. In short, it's a mess.

Personally, for what it's worth, I appreciate AMD's steps to suffix their products with a number comparable to Intel's lineup. It's not about confusing people, it's about allowing them to make easy comparisons. Let's face it, most of us would not immediately think that a 2.17GHz AMD CPU could perform around the same as a 3Ghz Intel CPU, and so the numbers suffixed on AMD chips have their uses.

Anyway, the whole situation is far from perfect, but both AMD and Intel happily acknowledge that something has to be done. Hopefully a new, industry-wide, naming convention will be introduced soon. Sadly, since Intel processors are superior at certain tasks, and AMD at others, it may be some time before it is agreed upon what exactly should be measured and taken into account.

Kind Regards

 

[Testin da Cable]

mips!! mips!!11

 

[Jonty]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
mips!! mips!!11

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
MIPS abbr. million instructions per second

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
MIPS abbr. <unit, benchmark> Million instructions per second.

The unit commonly used to give the rate at which a processor
executes instructions.

Often rendered by hackers as "Meaningless Indication of
Processor Speed" or in other unflattering ways. This
expresses a nearly universal attitude about the value of most
benchmark claims, said attitude being one of the great
cultural divides between hackers and marketroids.

The etymologically incorrect singular "1 MIP" is sometimes
heard.

Kind Regards

 

[Jonty]

A nice round of all the many 3200+ Reviews.

Happy reading

 

[xane]

My 1.3Ghz Athlon is still happy

 

[Embattle]

The Athlon is topped out, it won't take much more.

 

[kameleon]

Originally posted by Embattle
The Athlon is topped out, it won't take much more.

Oh, I don't know, with my super new heatsink and fan there's a few more miles in it yet.

 

[Jonty]

Originally posted by kameleon
Oh, I don't know, with my super new heatsink and fan there's a few more miles in it yet.

hehehe I think Embattle meant architecturally some of the the AMD chips are reaching their limits. *sniff* Ah Embattle, come back!

Kind Regards

 

[Embattle]

/Rubs Jonty

 

[Jonty]

Originally posted by Embattle
/Rubs Jonty

*Jonty isn't sure where this is going, but gives Embattle a hug and wishes him well as sole leader of the EVE masses*

Kind Regards

 

[Deadmanwalking]

oi stop the forum pimping!

 

[Embattle]

Oi hush or I'll get jonty to stick you to the roof using glue

 

[Embattle]

HardOCP have now tested the 3200+ but used mobos based on the nForce2 Ultra and VIA KT600 to test with.

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NDc2