AMD introduces budget Athlon 64

[jlangner]

Advanced Micro Devices has quietly trotted out a version of its Athlon 64 chip that provides a little less performance than earlier models but only costs about half as much.

The new Athlon 64 3000+ runs at 2GHz, the same as the existing Athlon 64 3200+, but it only comes with a 512KB secondary cache, according to an AMD spokesman. The 3200+ features a 1MB cache. A cache is a pool of memory integrated into the processor for rapid data access. In general, large caches lead to better performance.

http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5129122.html

[vaughan]

This Newcastle chip looks like a bargain. Almost as much performance with half the cost.

[TA_Super_10]

in 3 months the A-64 will be the buget systems as the new 939 pin boards will come out

[jlangner]

yea I posted news about that last night, but didn't ever show up under the news section.

[Bionic_Redneck]

there is a problem with submitting news. Hopefully it will be fixed in the next version

[Bionic_Redneck]

Ok I found out the problem, was some missing mysql tables in the "nuke_stories" and "autonews"

[jlangner]

Thanks BR.

[Jeff]

yea man, good job! I had no clue on how to fix it

[Bionic_Redneck]

Reviews are stating to pop up

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlon64-3000.html http://www.amdzone.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1371
http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1937