Athlon XP1900+ -- Faster Than A 2GHz P4?

doormat writes "AMD releases their AthlonXP 1900+ Processor today, thats 1.6GHz. And it seems like its enough to topple the P4-2.0GHz, even in Quake 3 Arena!! AMDMB has a review of it." Ian Bell points out an AMD press release on the new processor. I love watching my old Athlon get slower every day ...

Doh I got the old one yesterday

[Rushuru]

Argh!

I had just finished downloading the athlon xp 1800 yesterday.
Great now I have to download the new one over my 28.8k modem :/

What? You mean it's not a piece of software?

But wait...

[dmccarty]

...they didn't test it on quack3.exe.

I bet ...

[Archanagor]

it really smokes!

Re:Public perception of processor speeds

[led]

Sure, but us techies like to have as much power as possible, I did a amusing thing the other day wich was only possible with my Athlon 1.3ghz I pointed my webcam at myself a made a movie of me while playing quake... try that in a PII....
And of course EVERYBODY likes to have a faster computer just to get more seti packets in....

Nooooooo!

[erlando]

I just bought my AMD Athlon XP1800+ and now they release the XP1900+?! I could've had a 70 MHz faster processor if I'd only waited a few weeks! Why oh why didn't I wait? Think of all the time I would have saved if only my processor was that fast!

My world is in ruins..

Nothing to see here...

Old Athlon Getting Slower?

[base2op]

I love watching my old Athlon get slower every day ...

Leave it up to a filthy corparation like AMD to send out signals to slow down their older processors when they release a new one. I'm stickin' with Intel.

Just in time....

[SomeOtherGuy]

to help you heat your house for the winter...Those AMD guys are ok with me.

Re:Pretty cool, but....

[jejones]

What on earth did you do with your home computer to make the heat sink fall off your graphics card? (Or was it not attached properly to begin with?) I'm sorry, but it looks to me as though Tom's Hardware was pretty desperate to make any sort of anti-AMD point it could (BTW, it was running Intel ads on its site back when the 2 GHz P4 came out)--rather like Car and Driver running an exposé of what happens to your car if you take the fan and radiator off and then go drag racing. Duh...