Would you believe it gets the 4800+ designation?
WHO IS GOING TO launch dual core Athlon 64 X2s when they come out? Hewlett Packard for starters, and its box is going to look a lot like the picture below.
Nothing official was said, but a quick look at the system properties showed it was a 4800+, that means 2.4GHz with 2x1MB cache. The wording on the sticker near the bottom says (HP)Proto# 05-0331 for what it's worth.
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I suppose I'm much more of a software geek than a hardware geek, so I don't really know what 4800+ means, but I do know that 2.4GHz isn't anything special. Heck, I'm working on a system right now that is labeled as being 2.53 GHz and I bought this thing at Best Buy almost a year ago. I don't mean to be a bother, but what's so special about the computer in the picture?
From the picture itself, there is nothing special. The point is that since the Athlon XP chips, they have been getting a "performance designation" number, based on their overall performance, not only a clock speed. For example, my Athlon XP 2200+, supposedly equivalent to a Pentium 4 2.2 GHz chip, runs at 1.6 GHz. The big deal of the story is that the dual core chip is getting a 4800+ designation, and I'm sure will be much faster than your Pentium 4 running at 2.53 GHz. Of course, we'll have to wait for some benchmarks to verify this. These dual core chips will reportedly be available in the 2nd half of the year.
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