AMD, Inc. sent out the FIRST of its Palomino 3000+ Prototypes to various resellers across North America, recently, and being the tactful being I am, yours truly managed to take a peak (and scan the CPU at my workstation when no one was looking) at the new, excessively powerful chip that is every hardcore gamer's wildest dream, and from the looks of things, Intel's worst nightmare. A MUST READ! Sounds too good to be true though... Intel thought pretty highly of itself when it released the Intel Pentium 4 2.2GHz recently, which beat the AMD Athlon XP 2000+ by a hairline margin in various benchmarks. Funny, considering the 2000+ only runs at a clock speed of 1.67GHz. Intel's a sneaky bunch, they are. Cheating customers out of performance by having a disgustingly low Operations per Cycle rate on the P4, yet boasting an incredible 2.2GHz. Along with the chip came a specially designed XP motherboard, exclusively produced for the XP 3000+ Prototype. Clearly labelled on the core are, of course, "AMD Athlon?", and at the bottom, the "Palomino 3000+ PROTOTYPE" marking. Great thing about AMD is this; each time you buy a new processor, you generally don't have to buy a new motherboard. While normally that'd be the case, because this chip is so new, current motherboards do not have the BIOS updates to handle such a powerful specimen. AMD was nice enough to drop in a specially designed prototype motherboard for us to try it out. However, they didn't remember to send us a fan. No worries, we used one that we had in stock, the ThermalTake DragonOrb 1 running at 7000RPM. Applied some Arctic Silver II, popped the chip in, put the fan on, and booted up the machine. Source: Deadbodies
Nice fake isn´t it?