Sharky Extreme K7 Review

Sharky Extreme

"Sporting more sexy features than Jenna Jameson, the K7 pulls out all the stops to lay the lumber to Intel's upcoming Katmai line of CPUs. The K7's publicly disclosed features include a 200MHz Digital created EV6 compatible system bus, 128KB of L1 cache, up to 8MB of L2 cache, a core that offers a nine-issue superscalar microarchitecture and a pipelined floating point unit."

"First, the problems AMD encountered in the move from .35mu to .25mu this year caused massive delays and limited production to plague both their mainstream K6-2 CPUs as well as their timeline. This is the only reason that the K7 will be forced to debut in a .25mu version instead of the profitable .18mu version that AMD had hoped would be possible."

"he AMD K7 absolutely kicks Intel's ass all over the place until roughly mid-1999. After that point Intel's 600+MHz .18mu Katmais will hit the scene and the picture looks much grimmer for AMD."

"AMD's technological display of brute force at Comdex excited many media reps, including us. The question now is delivery. Can AMD's core logic producers provide a stable and capable AGPset for use with the K7? Can AMD fire out enough 400MHz K6-3s to really capitalize on all the progress they've made in 98? Can the switch to a .18 micron die-size be achieved fast enough to keep up with Intel's rapid shrinking dies?

And my favorite question:

Will I be able to overclock a K6-3 to ridiculous 550+MHz levels? "

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