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EVERY ONCE in a while, journalists get the glorious chance to eat their words, and today, that happened to me. The Athlon64 3000+ pics and articles I wrote over the last few days all said that the chip was a 1.8GHz, 1MB cache model, and that is what I was told. I had several in my hand, but none plugged into a machine, so no BIOS screen pics. Pity, they would have shown I was wrong right there.
Several people told me that they thought the chips were 2.0GHz, 512k cache, but I blew it off, mainly because the only person I knew with one told me otherwise. Then a helpful reader, Prof133, pointed out that my picture showed it was a 2.0/512 model.
To finish putting the boot in, he pointed me here here, providing me with the info I could not find after 45 minutes of searching AMD's web site. This helpfully provides the OPN decode info for any K7 chip you care to look up, but no K8 analogue. Sigh.
That said, looks like the 3000+ models will be 2.0GHz, 512k cache, and Newcastle arrives early, very early. Words are yummy early in the morning. At least the 3400 decodes right, I am too full to eat more. µ
* THE NEW PROCESSORS have started appearing on New Egg's web site and, naturally, and as always, in the Akihabara district of Tokyo.
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The INQ!!
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