AMD Athlon 4 (Palomino)

Description: This processor is mainly focused on the mobile computing. It has PowerNow features and SSE instructions among others.

Newest Review: ... Intel processor; Unfortunately Intel patent and copyright their work in a maner designed to prevent that, so AMD cannot just ... more

... replace an Intel processor - This means that you have to buy a motherboard which will accept one type of processor or the other. C'est la vie! *** Who or What is AMD? You've heard of Intel right? If you haven't, you clearly don't get out much. AMD are Intel's supposedly second-class cousins. In my opinion their second-class staus is decidedly undeserved - They produce quality products at reasonable prices, and keep an element of competition in the marketplace, without which we would see Inte...more

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AMD Athlon 4 (Palomino): 1800 horsepower. Woooosssshhh!!! (521 words)
by - written on 20/01/02 (Very useful, 272 readings)
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I've been spending money on computer toys again recently.... I wanted to buy a game called "Return to Castle Wolfenstien", but my old Pentium II-350 based PC wasn't up to it, so an upgrade was required. I'd resisted this upgrade for a significant amount of time due to budget restrictions, but now the bullet was due to be bitten... *** What is it? Hard question - I suppose that a "Clone of a Pentium IV" would be a good starting point, except that that would be ignoring the true lineage of this chip. AMD started producing cheap equivalents of Intel CPUs back in the days of the 486. So did other ... Read the complete review

Don't Buy Now Buy Later (344 words)
by - written on 13/01/02 (Very useful, 199 readings)
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Amd rose from almost complete obscurity a few years ago when they decided to start developing and making processors. Before this they made specialised chips for network cards and the like. At the start there processors were regarded as the poor mans choice behind intel. They soon began to catch up and even beat Intel to 1GHz. Recently however they were beaten to 2GHz by intel. The situation as it now stands is the Athlon XP 2000+ (1566MHz) versus the new northwood pentium 4's running at 2200MHz. This would seem to show that Intel processors are much faster it doesn't and hence AMD's policy of not labeling the processors in MHz i.e. 2000+. As it ... Read the complete review