AMD plan to offer 400MHz FSB Athon XP slips out

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AMD will indeed release a version of its Athlon XP with a 400MHz frontside bus, mobo maker Abit announced this morning. AMD has yet to announce such a part itself.

However, Abit's press release, issued today and headed "Abit engineered motherboards support the new AMD Athlon XP 333 and 400MHz Barton CPUs", says the company has unveiled "the 400MHz FSB Barton 3000+ and 3200+". So expect an announcement from AMD shortly...

The 400MHz FSB Barton-based Athlon XP was recently revealed by Japanese Web site PC Watch to have appeared on AMD's internal roadmap. Last week, a company representative told Ace's Hardware that AMD was "evaluating" a 400MHz FSB. PC Watch said the chip would operate with a performance rating of up to 3200+, now confirmed by Abit. In the meantime, Abit would also like you to know that its AT7 Max 2, KD7 and NF7 mobo families are ready to support the new chip.

News source: The Reg

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#1 JnCoKiLLa on 04 Apr 2003 - 09:12

This is to Fast they just release the 333FSb last month.....they must be gettin scared if they are rasing it be fore the Athlon64 come out...which i might add only Suports DDR 333 so far and won't be able to get DDR 400 till the next core a few months after Sept sometime

#2 leebobs on 04 Apr 2003 - 09:16

They need to stick the 400Mhz FSB on all Bartons to give them a decent advantage over the TBb cores other than cache which doesn't help in some modernday applications where a faster memory speed would.

(3 replies) #3 mAcOdIn on 04 Apr 2003 - 09:34

On top of that I think it's just a good marketing thing. Intel is moving to a 400mhz ddr so AMD might as well too.

#3.1 xStainDx on 04 Apr 2003 - 14:07

[neoquote=#3.0 by mAcOdIn]On top of that I think it's just a good marketing thing. Intel is moving to a 400mhz ddr so AMD might as well too.[/neoquote] But on an 800MHz FSB.

Intel Should Win this Performance Chapter

#3.2 GibMonkey on 04 Apr 2003 - 16:54

Intel does less cycles per memory clock compared to AMD. They both end up doing the same in different ways. 1 cycle * 800Mhz = 800 2 cycles * 400Mhz = 800 So no performace win

#3.3 hardgiant on 04 Apr 2003 - 21:21

Don't think that is accurate. I believe that the bandwidth is a lot less with the Athlon but despite that the performance is still pretty close. Of course the advantage use to be that the Athlon was cheaper and now it isn't.

#4 JnCoKiLLa on 04 Apr 2003 - 10:33

they should at least wait for the Athon64 to support it like i said...would be a better thing for them

(2 replies) #5 xStainDx on 04 Apr 2003 - 14:04

Don't get too exicited, this won't do much for the Athlon XP In terms of Performance Increases... [url]http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/memory/display/ddr400.html[/url] Check That Out

#5.1 leebobs on 04 Apr 2003 - 16:40

a 6-7% performance increase isn't to be sniffed at... Especiallly seeing as this would only really benefit the top end where there is a NEED for SPEED, they would love these extra numbers.

#5.2 Callaway on 04 Apr 2003 - 20:18

nice one.

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