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AMD Athlon 1.4
GHz CPU.
The 1.4GHz AMD Athlon processor-based systems with Double Data Rate (DDR)
memory continue to outperform 1.7GHz Intel Pentium™ 4 processor-based systems
by up to 40 percent on a variety of benchmarks, including cutting-edge
multimedia, desktop publishing, digital imaging and voice recognition
applications.
This AMD Athlon™ processor boasts cutting-edge performance designed to meet
the needs of power-hungry business users and PC enthusiasts. Its tremendous
processing power puts image processing, digital content creation, CAD/CAE, and
other demanding applications to work for you. Plus, the AMD Athlon processor
offers an exceptional solution for running the latest 3D gaming, entertainment,
Internet, and personal productivity software suites.
Tomorrow's Technology Today
The seventh-generation AMD Athlon processor is based on the industry's most
advanced x86 microarchitecture. The following features and capabilities combine
to give users of AMD Athlon processor-based systems an extraordinary computing
experience, as well as the confidence that their systems are designed to meet
their computing needs for years to come.
- Microarchitecture: The AMD Athlon processor features a
superpipelined, nine-issue superscalar microarchitecture optimized for high
clock frequencies. The AMD Athlon processor contains a total of nine
execution pipelines: three for address calculations, three for integer
calculations, and three for executing x87 (floating point), 3DNow!™ and
MMX™ instructions.
- System Bus:The AMD Athlon processor's system bus is the first x86
platform bus running at or above 200MHz. At present, AMD Athlon processors
are available with 266MHz and 200MHz system buses. As one of the fastest x86
processor buses currently available, the design delivers as high as 100
percent more peak bandwidth than any x86 system bus. It is designed for
scalable multiprocessing and leverages high-performance Alpha™ EV6 bus
technology to enable exceptional system performance.
- Floating Point Engine: The AMD Athlon processor includes the first
fully pipelined, superscalar floating point engine for x86 platforms. The
resulting floating point capability is the most powerful ever delivered in
an x86 processor.
- Enhanced 3DNow!™ Technology: The AMD Athlon processor's enhanced
3DNow! technology takes 3D multimedia performance to incredible heights and
builds on the 21 instructions of AMD's original 3DNow! technology-the first
x86 instruction set to use superscalar SIMD floating point techniques.
Enhanced 3DNow! technology adds 24 instructions-19 to improve MMX integer
math calculations and enhance data movement for Internet streaming
applications and 5 DSP extensions for soft modem, soft ADSL, Dolby Digital,
and MP3 applications.
- Cache Architecture: The AMD Athlon processor boasts a 384K total
full-speed on-chip system cache including 128K L1 cache--four times that of
Intel's Pentium® III processor--and 256K on-chip full-speed L2 cache. This
performance-enhancing cache design helps boost overall system performance.
- Double Data Rate (DDR) Memory: The natural evolution from
PC100/PC133 SDRAM memory, DDR memory enables unrivaled x86 performance while
remaining price competitive. While other types of SDRAM memory read and
write only once per clock cycle, DDR technology allows the memory to read
and write twice per cycle. DDR memory is available from major DRAM suppliers
around the world.
Powering the Next Generation in Computing Platforms
The combination of exceptional performance, high clock frequencies,
performance-enhancing cache memory, impressive bus bandwidth, and a reliable
design makes the AMD Athlon processor family a powerful choice for high-end
desktop systems, workstations, and servers.
The AMD Athlon processor offers the peace-of-mind reliability required by
enterprise users and IT managers. The AMD Athlon processor's system bus is also
designed for scalable multiprocessing, with the number of AMD Athlon processors
in a multiprocessor system determined by chipset implementation.
High-performance AMD Athlon processor-based platforms provide an exceptional
level of performance and data-movement bandwidth for computation-intensive
software used in such challenging applications as digital imaging, Internet
content development, enterprise computing, CAD/CAE, scientific/technical
calculations, and 3D gaming
Retail (3yr warranty) ---- $159 
OEM (30day warranty) -$129
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