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BigAkita · 22-August-04, 06:15 AM

My response to Arkangyl is: Yes, my mind was made up before the review. As a matter of fact, my mind was made up when the Newcastle was first released. The faster CPU is the better buy. If you have to overclock the Clawhammer in order to equal the performance of the Newcastle, why buy it? The Newcastle is quicker out of the box. Not everybody has the gear or knowledge to overclock a CPU. That's why at the end I said each individual needs to make up their mind for themselves.

The cache doesn't enhance the performance of the Clawhammer much at all. Just look at the numbers when I had both CPUs clocked at the same speed. If you are going to base value on overclocking, then my recommendation is to just stick with Socket A and buy a 1700+ XP chip.

As far as your suggestions go on the divider, look at the board I used then ask again. About the only overclocking option for that board is power on or power off. No, the preproduction CPU isn't any different from the production CPU except for 200MHz. The only reason that it wasn't sent to retail is that the marketing folks at AMD rightly surmised that nobody would buy the 1800MHz 3000+ CPU if they could get the same speed with larger cache. They were going to be closely priced.

I appreciate your comments and if you feel that I may have skewed the results, I look forward to your own member review.

22-August-04, 06:15 AM		#6 (permalink)
BigAkita n00b-ass reviewer	My response to Arkangyl is: Yes, my mind was made up before the review. As a matter of fact, my mind was made up when the Newcastle was first released. The faster CPU is the better buy. If you have to overclock the Clawhammer in order to equal the performance of the Newcastle, why buy it? The Newcastle is quicker out of the box. Not everybody has the gear or knowledge to overclock a CPU. That's why at the end I said each individual needs to make up their mind for themselves. The cache doesn't enhance the performance of the Clawhammer much at all. Just look at the numbers when I had both CPUs clocked at the same speed. If you are going to base value on overclocking, then my recommendation is to just stick with Socket A and buy a 1700+ XP chip. As far as your suggestions go on the divider, look at the board I used then ask again. About the only overclocking option for that board is power on or power off. No, the preproduction CPU isn't any different from the production CPU except for 200MHz. The only reason that it wasn't sent to retail is that the marketing folks at AMD rightly surmised that nobody would buy the 1800MHz 3000+ CPU if they could get the same speed with larger cache. They were going to be closely priced. I appreciate your comments and if you feel that I may have skewed the results, I look forward to your own member review.