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Barton 3200+ and FSB 400 could launch in April

Daniel Fleshbourne   on 16 March 2003 - 23:44 · 11 comments & 497 views

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PEOPLE AT CEBIT reckoned that the AMD 3200+ using the Barton core could launch as early as April. But that's in contradistinction to the latest roadmaps we've seen which have it down for the middle of the year. So either something's gone better than AMD hoped, or possibly Intel's 3.20GHz Pentium 4 is galvanising the roadmaps.

The 3200+ is reckoned to have 512K of level two cache may well work with a 400MHz front side bus, the last stop on the Alpha EV6 station. What will the performance be like? FSB 400 Athlons will be able to compete with a Pentium 4 3.06, but how it will perform against a Prescott at 3.2GHz with 1MB cache is a different matter.

However, the roadmaps we've seen show Northwood has another gasp at 3.20GHz before that particular process expires, breathing heavily. An Nforce 2 chipset of an AMD "special partner" demonstrated that its chipset can actually run at 400 MHZ FSB speed while there will be chipsets from SIS and VIA to support this feature as well.

News source: The Inq


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(4 replies) #1 daveS on 17 Mar 2003 - 00:20
" Prescott at 3.2GHz with 1MB cache " .. thats alot of cache for a non server cpu ! I'd like to see how this new barton would perform, was gonna wait for a k8 but one of these might sway me to save a few dollars between the upgrades !
#1.1 Neo - Matrix on 17 Mar 2003 - 01:44
[neoquote=#1.0 by daveS]" Prescott at 3.2GHz with 1MB cache " .. thats alot of cache for a non server cpu ! I'd like to see how this new barton would perform, was gonna wait for a k8 but one of these might sway me to save a few dollars between the upgrades ![/neoquote] I'm just thinking about that ... 1MB of L2 Cache ... For me 512K is enough .. But i would like to see a review of that new Athlon, just wondering a CPU like that in a great NF2 based board with ATi 9800PRO ... would be great.
#1.2 xStainDx on 17 Mar 2003 - 02:41
How can anyone say " x amount of cache for me is enough" The More the merryier!
#1.3 leebobs on 17 Mar 2003 - 08:42
512k of cache is enough for anyone..... But who needs more than 640kb of memory?
#1.4 Furet on 17 Mar 2003 - 12:50
lol....Remember m$ some years ago...
#2 kainashi on 17 Mar 2003 - 04:54
can't wait until the benchmarks.
#3 hardgiant on 17 Mar 2003 - 06:16
There not getting any cheaper though, there money hunger so the price is going up.
#4 leebobs on 17 Mar 2003 - 08:43
Give it 9 months and the Socket A platform will be the best value for money platform in PC history..... Athlon 3200, 400Mhz FSB, 512Mb Duel DDR, ATI 9700Pro = More speed than needed @ Low Low Price
(2 replies) #5 The Patri0t on 17 Mar 2003 - 09:39
at that time Athlon 3200,400Mhz FSB,512Mb Duel DDR,ATI 9700Pro will be = because of the advance in both the AMD n INTEL precessors
#5.1 leebobs on 17 Mar 2003 - 09:53
Yeah, but software will not have evolved.... Making most hardware advancements great for speed but kinda useless till the software is optimised for it
#5.2 hardgiant on 17 Mar 2003 - 10:28
The Athlon 64 and Prescott will be faster but they also will be very expensive.

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