Megahertz mess with your head, says AMD (again)

"Tom's Hardware can say what they want. The picture of the "confidential" CPU they put in the first page of the review is clearly a fake with Photoshop inside," they say. "Even if they don't write that this CPU is the 3.3 GHz version, they put a fake confidential picture in the first page of their review and DON'T WRITE about that!"

"Moreover," they say in fine English, "according to Intel's roadmap, Pentium 4 with speed > 3.2 GHz will be based on Prescott core. And this one only have 512k L2 cache inside and no HT support..." Hmmm

And to round off yesterday's business, it seems we may owe sites nV News and Envy News an apology. It looks like our links to the comments they wrote slagging us off on their site may have overloaded their server, according to a message on their site over, er, maybe not. : )

"Sometime on the evening of the 9th, our Linux server 'HDA3' drive ran out of free space. This caused nV News and Envy News to go offline," they say. Ahh!

In, er, more important news, "the AMD Athlon processor is perhaps the most successful AMD processor to date," say the guys at ExHardware in their new review of an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ Thoroughbred. We like the "perhaps". Here's the review.

Samsung or Kingston? asks German site Hardware Luxx in its PC1066-Roundup over here.

And ExcessiveHardware took a look at some DDR333 memory. The funniest thing," they say "is that the inexpensive Kingston ValueRAM overclocked better than any of the other memory; including the Corsair PC3000". Here's the link.

Anandtech has a look at one of the Athlon boards offering DDR400 support, the ASUS A7V8X. Not only is DDR400 an unapproved specification, they say, but the Athlon's FSB can't take advantage of the 3.2GB/s of DDR400 anyway, even if DDR400 were a specification at this point. So what's the big deal about this review if DDR400 doesn't matter, they ask. Wibble this way.

Meanwhile, German site Computerbase has a look a Asus DDR400 offering for the Pentium 4 - the P4S8X based on the SiS648 over here.

ATI's Radeon 9700 Pro gets a test over at ViaHArdware, er, oops, Sunhian, over here.

While HardOCP goes one or two better with its ATI Radeon 9700 Pro IQ Comparison. "We've run hundreds of benchmarks on the Radeon 9700 Pro," they say. "And now it's time to take an in-depth look into IQ, video, drivers, and even overclocking." Wibble hither.

Sourcemagazine has a chat with some AMDers on the subject of 'AMD's Push For Enterprise', digging up the odd old chestnut.

"People should be studying benchmarks instead of megahertz in order to gauge performance?" they ask marketeer Mark Bode.

"The precedent has been set that megahertz is what you're supposed to look at when buying a computer, right? We're not saying that megahertz should not be considered. We're simply saying that using it as the sole measure of performance is not telling you the true performance of that system," he replies." If you look solely at the megahertz, you're not getting exactly what you thought relative to the expectations that have been set." You can read the rest over here.

Dan looks at some mousemats again. Over here.

Hexus have a "technology overview" of the new Vapochill Premium and Standard edition coolers over here.

And Tyan unveils its graphics card offering. The company says it will manufacture its ATI Radeon 9000 PRO VPU itself. Tyan's Shanghai Development team is working on designs for the Radeon 9700 PRO and Radeon 9500 cards says the company in a statement here.

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