Death of the Athlon XP :(

[sniperpenguin]

Yes I know its been coming for a while but...

AMD Processor RoadMap (http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_608,00.html)

Let us all shed a tear for the chip that not only turned it around, but whupped Intel's a** when it came to the VFM stakes. :(

[Euphoria]

Good ol' chips they was :( :(

[latency]

MY BARTON WILL LIVE ON!!!!!

Seems like only yesterday we were all clocking Athlon 1700 t-bred B cores to 2.3ghz with Danger den maze 3 water cooling...

[Euphoria]

MY BARTON WILL LIVE ON!!!!!

Seems like only yesterday we were all clocking Athlon 1700 t-bred B cores to 2.3ghz with Danger den maze 3 water cooling...

It's kinda spooky how far technology has come in the past year :eek:

[cheazypeaz]

i know and heres me never even got the barton yet lol.. sudents eh :)

[cool_dude]

i remember when i used to be on my 2500 mobile (not barton but near it :P) and in the past year ive gone past SktA, Skt 754 and now am at Skt939

[conan]

Well, still on XP's here at the moment. Planning to go S939 but the chip price is putting me off at the moment. My rig does all I want it to do so I'll hang fire for the moment. Running 3 2500's and were all happy:)

[sniperpenguin]

same here, Im planning to ignore Socket 754 completely.... Why did they bother with those? :S

Price is an issue tho... and is it worth waiting for PCI-E (or PCI-X, whatever ;) ) ... something new is alllllways around the corner.

[Aa-chan]

Using a Socket 754 here and will be selling my XP3200+ shortly. It is a shame, but thank God they've moved away from those stupid little cores that you were always afraid to crack when tightening a heatsink :p .

[Slamdog]

i dunno.. not gonna change either my bartons or my northwoods until they die properly.

been talking to Graeme about mobo's recently and there are too many different types of cpu/socket on the market these days. i remember when there was just 2...

[anon1011]

i remember when i used to know all the new hardware coming out , and could tell you about anything .... that was back in the Athlon 1700 ... infact this time last year i still had one in my main system. (i'm on an Athlon 2800 right now by the way)

i'd quite like to get away from this shuttle business and get a proper system again (i cant stand the restricted limit's of them anymore) and have been browsing through motherboards, cpu's etc. and i'm just confused to say the least !!

i should be ordering a pentium based system around easter time next year so any idea's what the spec's will be round about then ??