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csimon

4 Mar 2004, 3:00pm

Anantech (http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1985) has this posted ...first time I hear of it ...FX-55 in May '04?

Socket-939 Roadmap for 2004
Clock Speed Cache Size Release Date
AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 2.6GHz 1MB May '04
AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 2.4GHz 1MB Mar '04
AMD Athlon 64 4200+ 2.8GHz ??? H1 '05
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ 2.6GHz ??? Q1 '05
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ 2.4GHz 512KB May '04
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz 512KB May '04

Socket-754 Roadmap for 2004
Clock Speed Cache Size Release Date
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ 2.4GHz 1MB Apr '04
AMD Athlon 64 3400+ 2.2GHz 1MB Already Available
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz 1MB Already Available
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 2.0GHz 512KB Already Available
AMD Athlon 64 2800+ 1.8GHz 512KB Q1 '04
AMD Athlon XP 3200+ TBD 256KB Q1 '05
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ TBD 256KB Q4 '04
AMD Athlon XP 2800+ TBD 256KB Q3 '04

ginipig

4 Mar 2004, 3:03pm

What's wrong with the source?

csimon

4 Mar 2004, 3:05pm

What's wrong with the source?Nothing ...I reworded it thanks!

Omega65

4 Mar 2004, 7:58pm

AMD has stated there will only be One FX chip available at a time. As the next arrives the previous will be phased out.

So I doubt that BOTH the FX-53 and the FX-55 will both show up at the same time.

According to tests the extra 512K L2 doesn't give you much though.....

qparadox

5 Mar 2004, 6:48am

If they can get the opterons up at that speed (2.6+ GHz) soon the Xeon is gonna be in for some real pain.

Geeky1

5 Mar 2004, 7:30am

Socket 754 Athlon XPs... :wtf: :scratch:

beatz

5 Mar 2004, 9:45am

Yes, they are supposed to be Athlon64's with deactivated 64 bit extension.
Weird, that they want to keep having 32 bit CPUs instead of migrating all to 64 bit. I guess its a marketing thing to be able to charge more for 64 bit CPU's.
But who knows, maybe you will be able to mod to reactivate the 64 bit part again and get yourself a cheap Athlon 64. :D

TheBaron

5 Mar 2004, 8:52pm

i wants an fx-55.
oh hey wait, by the time of my next upgrade, that will have gone down in price :D

Omega65

5 Mar 2004, 11:37pm

Yes, they are supposed to be Athlon64's with deactivated 64 bit extension.
Weird, that they want to keep having 32 bit CPUs instead of migrating all to 64 bit. I guess its a marketing thing to be able to charge more for 64 bit CPU's.
But who knows, maybe you will be able to mod to reactivate the 64 bit part again and get yourself a cheap Athlon 64. :D

AMD need a cheap part to compete with Prescott Celerons.

MJO

6 Mar 2004, 12:42am

AMD need a cheap part to compete with Prescott Celerons.

One can only hope that the PresHot Celeron runs cooler than it's umm.. faster sibling.

If not, intel will make an inefficient, hot, expensive and slow "Budget Processor"

Looking forward to see some benches.
The NW Celeron was thoroughly beaten by even a Duron.

I'll give it a :thumbsdow in advance.

Omega65

7 Mar 2004, 11:02am

One can only hope that the PresHot Celeron runs cooler than it's umm.. faster sibling.

If not, intel will make an inefficient, hot, expensive and slow "Budget Processor"

Looking forward to see some benches.
The NW Celeron was thoroughly beaten by even a Duron.

I'll give it a :thumbsdow in advance.

True, but at 90nm it'll be dirt cheap to make. And unfortunately few people outside of the community pay attention to benchmarks

TheBaron

7 Mar 2004, 9:11pm

i was under the impression the newer Athlon XP's built on the A64 core were meant to compete with the Prescott Celeron's.

Omega65

11 Mar 2004, 12:43am

Anantech (http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1985) has this posted ...first time I hear of it ...FX-55 in May '04?

Socket-939 Roadmap for 2004
Clock Speed Cache Size Release Date
AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 2.6GHz 1MB May '04
AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 2.4GHz 1MB Mar '04

Current Reports have the FX-55 arriving in 3Q 2004 and being the 1st 90nm Opteron