AMD Athlon Processors in general

AMD is riding an unprecedented wave of success in the processor market. Although not enjoying the kind of market share held by Intel, AMD has made enormous strides and each set of quarterly results seems to herald a new watershed in terms of overall sales and net income. AMD has done this the old fashioned way, by producing high performance processors and ensuring that viable and stable platforms exist for a wide range of markets. Intel has not been stationary either and not long after the AMD 1.2 GHz entry, they introduced their Pentium 4-1.5 GHz processor. The Pentium 4 has gotten top marks from a technology standpoint, but a lukewarm reception based on ...  Read the complete review

Once upon a time, intel made something called a pentium processor, and everyone thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. At the time, it probably was the market leader, and was generally pretty cool. Mail order, and large PC companies, started whacking these processors in all of their machines as a selling point. To many people who don't really know what they're doing (first time buyers and the like) the little 'intel inside' sticker is a good thing. To me, it is more like a red cross on the door of someone with the plague. No, there's nothing wrong with pentiums, and over time, like Microsoft, they became a bit of a ...  Read the complete review

AMD have been in the processor business for quite a while, but it wasn't until their Athlon Thunderbird line of processor that they really entered mainstream acceptance as a competitive processor to the Intel family of processors. Intel had the lead over many of the other CPU manufacturers for quite a while in the past decade, but things are changing. There is now some competition for them to deal with. Intel gained a lot of respect for their Pentium line of chips; they became the standard for others to follow. They had their name printed on the boxes of games, remember the saying Pentium Pro or compatible processor. This has left many people thinking that ...  Read the complete review

Once again the CPU battle fires up, with AMD announcing the release of there new processor next week. Code named Palomino. The new AMD 4 will be nicely positioned to corner the notebook market also, as the P4 has no plans to release a notebook size CPU untill the first half of 2002. One of the main points with the new AMD Athlon is the power usage, recently AMD Athlons would suck up a staggering 60watts of power, which is alot less than the Pentium4. Reportedly the Athlon 4 is said use a concerdable amount less than its current 60watts. Due to the less power that the Athlon 4 needs it makes it a keen goer for the notebook market. Also to note ...  Read the complete review

AMD athlon is the hub of my computer brain. I have recently upgraded to an AMD Athlon 1.4 chip and appropriate mother board. I upgraded from an Intel 800 Pentium 3 in order to speed things up a little. This upgrade was painless and not that expensive. For £400 I got a "new" computer this included 256MB extra SDRAM and a CD rewriter. The person I purchased the processor from took my intel in as a part exchange. I have been using this now for 3 months and I feel I can comment on the relative worth of the experience. Was it worth it? yes oh yes. The AMD is a fast beast taking pages, for example, from my temporary internet files instantly. A ...  Read the complete review