MP/XP chip speeds table...

Blaedmon wrote:
Hey Hey! Easy on the big words! Instead of using 'scatological' why
didnt you simply say 'poo-like'? People shouldnt scan their minds for
long words in vain attempts to sound clever because, quite frankly,
they merely end up sounding like dicks. Sorry.

Why use many of the words in the English language when they have more than 4
letters, yes! "****", the most useful word on a planet: e.g.:

noun: "You ****".
adjective: "****ing thing"

If you hurt yourself, yell "****!"
It's a synonym for broken, drunk and the past tense of having sex: "****ed"

Yes, there are thousands of words in the English language, but don't worry
about subtlety of meaning or any of that, just use the multipurpose word
"****" in all of it's tenses past "****ed", present "****ing" and future
"****". Make way for more interesting things in your brain than long words
with complicated meanings.

Anyhoo - I got like 3 emails regarding my post, all asking whether I'd
figured it out. Some dude asked what his 2400+ actually was, also. So
in striking down your first point in fiery amusement let me laugh in
your direction... ahem... "AAAAAAAAHHAAHAHAHA!".

His first point was that "You'd be more likely to get a useful response".
Those three responses were not useful to you. They certainly didn't answer
your question...

Next... I found the relevant info I needed faster on google which,
admitedly, I should have done in the first place.

Indeed. It ain't a hard thing to do.

But I wanted to see how many people look down on AMD naming
system as I do. Its simply stupid. Sorry.

Oh THATS what you were trying to do. It's not what you said you were trying
to do.

Next...Upset? Did I sound upset? Annoyed would be the word. Company
after company name their stuff incoherently. What the hell does an
Intel Pentium 4
2.0ghz mean? Hmm.. lets see.. Its revision 4 architecture, its 2ghz!
Incredible! That was real simple. Now, what the hell is an AMD Athlon
XP 2800+? Ok.. Its made by AMD.. the chip is an Athlon... XP.. could
be its made specifically for windowsXP? not sure. 2800+! Ah so it
must run at 2800ghz! WOW! I going to get me one of those!
Now, lets look at the sarcasm above and see that a point is made. Get
it?
I look forward to stupid replies.

Oh yes, cos we're in GHz now and 1000MHz it's not at all comparable with
1GHz is it?

AMD made it clear from the start what they were attempting to do. They
reprimanded* people who incorrectly tried to sell an athlon XP 1700 as a
1.7GHz processor. It really isn't that difficult to grasp, but then,
neither is a dictionary and long words, are they?

I don't think you seem to have made any point actually. It's so
illogically** argued that quite frankly it makes no real sense.

Quite how you can get so "angry" over a naming convention is beyond me. Yes
the Renault 5 must have a 5 litre engine. The Rover 416 must have a 416
litre engine. Or are they 5cc and 416cc engines respectively***? The
logitech Z-680 speakers must be 680 Watts, My Sony G400 monitor must be
400Inches across, my Nokia 6310i must work on the 6310MHz band, my size 9
shoes must be 9 inches long, my GXP120 hard disk must be 120Gigs, My DDR400
RAM must run at 400MHz... the list goes on...

Quite simply, just don't assume the numnber means anything, least of all in
any terms of units, si or otherwise.

Ben
--
I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a string...

* http://dictionary.reference.com/sear...&q=reprimanded
** http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=illogically
*** http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=respectively

Yes, I'm more bored than you can imagine.

:-P