Hi,
I fully understand the concept. It was tried years ago by them along with
the Cyrix/IBM chips.
I just think anything that confuses the consumer, is not good for the
consumer. I don't rememeber
seeing any long term adverising program from AMD educating the public about
the naming change, do you?
At 01:26 PM 12/26/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>It's actually smart on AMD's part. It is true that an AMD running at 1.3
>Ghz will run as fast as, or even outperform, an Intel chip running at 1.5
>Ghz. This is because clock speed should not be confused with processing
>power. AMD's chips have a much higher IPC (instructions per cycle) count.
>Simply put, AMD does more with less. It can do more instructions for each
>cycle than can an Intel chip. There for instead of trying to convince the
>consumer that an Athlon 1.3 Ghz is faster than an Intel 1.5 Ghz, they just
>started called them Athlon 1300, 1500, etc...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe Lore [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 5:01 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] AMD 1200
>
>
>Hi,
>
>AMD CPU's no longer are numbered by the actual speed the chip runs at, but
>rather at what equivalent INTEL cpus speed is most favorably compares to.
>This is because AMD says there ore other factors than speed that determine
>how fast a CPU really is.
>
>Confused yet? Should be, it's kind of like a shell game because they can't
>win on the raw cpu speed issue, so they changed the way the game is played
>to favor themselves.
>
>example:
>
>the amd xp1500+ really runs at 1.33ghz. (266 hhz bus)
>
>sorry that is the only one I have handy to compare with
>
>
>
>
>At 09:39 AM 12/19/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>>Hello;
>>Iwant to ask about the AMD duron 1200+ Pro if it is an 1200Mhz cpu or not
>and if any body can help me finding the specifications of Elite motherboard
>k7sem with AMD Duron 1200+ cpu onboard
>>thanks
>>
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