Tuesday, October 1rst, 2002

Conclusions

There is no doubt that the 166MHz (or 333MHz, if you prefer) FSB of the new AMD Athlon "Thoroughbred" revision B has blessed the Athlon XP with a remarkable performance boost.

Despite the fairly timid core frequency increase that the XP 2700+ has over the XP 2600+, the mere increase in FSB bandwidth has greatly alleviated the performance bottleneck that has hurt earlier systems.

Today, the fact of the matter is that the AMD Athlon remains a serious threat to the Intel Pentium 4 simply because it's cheaper, and just as fast.

We can only take heart at this state of affairs; if it wasn't for the ingenuity of the engineers at AMD, and their ability to rival the might of Intel, we can be certain that the Intel would still be selling CPU's priced like gold bullion, as it did a few years ago.

In other words, prices have fallen sharply, but performance has continued to improve.

Buyers are thus getting more for their money than ever before, and, quite frankly, nobodies complaining.

Now, it only remains to be seen what new surprises are in store when AMD releases "Barton", and "Hammer"...

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