WE MUST BE BRAVE !!

[AMDgeek]

I was thinking that when the new palominio(ATHLON 4) comes out that it will be a hole new ballgame. It may over clock real well or it may not. New mobos, new bugs. And maybe it will be a flawless over clocking monster which I doubt will be the case. Lets hope that they don't crack so easy too.
It will be a real learning experience and will be fun.


AMDgeek

[jeff_harrison_344]

True...True :D

[Oni]

Word.

[Phil]

people have gotten to used to overclocking processors for too long, the only new chip to try has been the p4 which the less I talk about the better, I get the feeling the athlon 4 (I can understand 3 but 4?) will probabally just be a lot like the tbird but I bet the first lot (running at like 1.4ghz) will overclock great as they don't pump out any near the same amount of heat as the tbird

[Megahurtz]

I've been trying to follow the various twists and turns of this plot for some time now. I have a sense that desktop Palomino will be good for around 1.8Ghz. That's only a best guess, and I do not know if, like 'T-Bird' that AMD will continually tweak the process in order to improve yields and hopefully get some of the prime cores into the lower speed bins.

Please take the above with more than a grain of salt, as it is nearly all conjecture..based on a lot of 'smoke and mirrors' data. Hopefully, we'll all know more tomorrow.

T

[AMDgeek]

Yes I agree that we have been over clocking the same chips for quite some. And I sure wish that AMD would not call it the "Athlon 4" that's like tricking the less technical people to buy it to get sales up I think that it is really low.
I read on the AMD site that it will be half as hot as the T-Bird, witch @ 1.75 volts is as hot as a 75 watt lightbulb on a surface area the size of your thumb nail witch really makes it hard to cool. so all I can say is this will be a fun new toy to play with

BTW the head line was just to catch your attention

[Phil]

"Technically speaking, the Palomino core does mark the fourth AMD Athlon core since the release of the original K7 core in 1999. If we begin counting at the K7 core there was the 0.18-micron Athlon which was based on the K75 core, then the 0.18-micron Thunderbird with on-die L2 cache and the fourth Athlon core would be the 0.18-micron Palomino core"

Straight from anandtechs athlon 4 article

[proze]

i'm looking forward to the palomino/athlon 4, and saving up for one. it's going to be such a refreshing change from the pretty stagnant amd overclocking scene that we have now.

[mrpcman]

Anybody know how much the A4 is going to cost?