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Old 02-26-2003, 06:16 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally posted by JeC
Finally, I can't see why AMD have to have the names of all their chips @ like Athalon 2100+ when the processor is only like 1700mhz. That to me just seems like a cheap marketing ploy for unweary players.
Actually, it's because uninformed people will just buy the ones with the highest numbers. They don't care/know about the actual performance.

So AMD can't just put the clock speed, because then no-one apart from people who know the performance differences would buy them.
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