Overclockers Online has posted a review on the new Athlon XP 1700+
With the Athlon XP, AMD has introduced a rating for each model. What does this mean? Well, AMD is now labelling their processors with a rated speed. Instead of selling them as a 1.47GHz cpu, they sell it as a 1700+ cpu because it will perform as fast as a 1.7GHz processor from an other manufacturer (read: Intel).Read more
Those of you who have been around in the hardware community for some time will remember this rating stunt ... does the name Cyrix ring a bell? Cyrix, once a fair competitor of Intel was selling cpu's at rated speeds as well (back in the days of the Pentium I cpu's). Today no one is talking about Cyrix anymore, except to make fun of it of course. AMD won't go bankrupt because of this, but chances are that people will feel mislead by all this rated numbers.
