HP debuts highest clocked AMD Athlon XP processor
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 04 December 2003 - 17:32 · 2 comments & 309 views
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#1 Posted by 123_kid on 04 Dec 2003 - 18:57
- I wonder what the overclocking potential on these chips are.
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#2 Posted by DeathWarrant on 04 Dec 2003 - 20:09
- This has been available at least for the last 2 months as I got this box that long ago. First thing I did was pop that bad boy out and place it in my Asus A7N8X Deluxe. Even with the latest bios revision it still isn't recognized as a 3200 but I can set the clock to spec @ 2.33 without any problem. I haven't tried OCing it YET.
We also said that it may be possible for AMD to ship this 2.33 GHz device with a slower 266 FSB and sell it as an Athlon MP 3000+, which would nicely round out the platform's offerings. On AMD's latest data sheet for its model 10 Athlon MP processor, its 2600+ model is now a Barton device, which operates at 2 GHz. Its 2800+ sibling operates at 2.133 GHz. If AMD used the current scaling and just added 133 MHz to its current top-end Athlon MP device, an Athlon MP 3000+ with a 2.266 GHz clock rate would be easier to bring to market.
AMD's last Athlon MP debut was at the beginning of last May, which was seven months ago. So isn't it now time that AMD delivered what would probably be the last Athlon MP device? It would certainly add some much needed appeal to that platform.
Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBoS) expect to have the majority of their customers moved by the end of 2004, but both will stretch into 2005 to complete the migration.
And HSBC has confirmed that it will take two years to move its six million customers to chip-based cards, with the bank's rollout programme only expected to be concluded by the end of 2005.
HBOS plans to start its rollout in the first quarter of 2003 and expects to take about 18 months to refresh its debit card customer base with new cards.
"We have quite a short period to get cards out to our eight million debit card holders, which we plan to have done by mid-2005," said John Capper, HBOS manager for service and delivery strategy banking.
"We've been through the scoping and design phases, and we'll move into the implementation stage early next year."
Abbey, meanwhile, confirmed that it will have issued its 4.5 million debit card customers with new cards by the end of 2004, while its internet subsidiary Cahoot has been issuing chip-based cards since July.
Abbey is giving customers new cards as their old ones expire or are lost, a process that has been accelerated by shortening the expiry date on many cards, ensuring that the replacement cycle falls within the timeframe.