AMD to launch 246 on 4 August

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Jul 06, 2003 6:33 pm

Interesting. I'll check my supplier if it will be available and have it on my site asap. This is going to be a big one! Now all the other chips will go down in price.

...hopefully.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/31568.html

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wldkos · Post by **wldkos** » Sun Jul 06, 2003 6:54 pm

only 2ghz? Is that because they can be Oc'd to more than that?

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jryan · Post by **jryan** » Sun Jul 06, 2003 7:00 pm

The Opteron series processors are business-class, kind of like Intel Itanium processors, so they do not require higher speeds, rather, their performance exceeds their consumer class counterparts. The Athlon 64 is coming, so look to that more than you look forward to the Opteron processor. Also, remember that AMDs are proven to be able to exceed Intel processors, with the latest Athlon XP model being the 3200+, so it wouldn't be 3.2GhZ, but it performs at the level of a 3.2GhZ Pentium 4. Still looks good, but I'm looking towards the AMD Athlon 64 more than the newer Opteron processors, besides, once the Athlon 64 comes out, it'll be time for a new mobo.

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megaspaz · Post by **megaspaz** » Sun Jul 06, 2003 9:45 pm

hmmm... maybe duke nukem 3 will be out by then also...

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 11:01 pm

This should of been out yesterday... I'll go do some reasearch to see if it was. That means all the "older" chips should go down in price, hopefully. I really want to build another PC and have a multi-use server. (dns, http, ftp, telnet, mail, gateway, firewall, proxy..... yeah, a pentium won't do

)

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jryan · Post by **jryan** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 12:49 am

You realize that, should you run this server off your network again, you could REALLY be asking for it from the ISP, right? I mean, remember what happened last time...

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 12:50 am

It would be local only, not external. Nobody but me would be using it. It would probably act as router as well, not sure how I'll configure this.

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