1.3GHz Athlon out and about

Mag ads and hardware sites

By Robert Blincoe • Get more from this author

Posted in Channel, 19th February 2001 12:47 GMT

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AMD's 1.3GHz Athlon is poised to make an appearance in public at last.

Online reseller Dabs.com is advertising the processor in the April issue of PC Pro magazine. It's quoting £220 for the 1.3GHz Athlon with either a 200MHz or 266MHz bus.

Competitors complain that Dabs has jumped the gun, and as the chips aren't available, the ad is meaningless. We say the ad gives a pretty good indication of end-user pricing (in the UK, anyway).

Meanwhile HardOCP has got a pic of one of them. Click here for an eyeful. ®