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This is the king of the hill on launch day. The 600 MHz Athlon, although the same speed as Intel’s Pentium III 600 (which beat it to market by 2 weeks), is much faster in power. AMD have realised this and this chip is very expensive with a price tag in the region of £700 (UK buyers can read this as £700), a clear price premium over the Pentium III. Again as with all Athlon’s the performance of the 600 MHz model is simply stunning. No processor made by Intel at the chip’s launch date can equal its sheer processing power. Many plaudits have stated that it will take a 700 MHz Pentium III to be capable of beating this chip. Its gaming performance is stunning, only being limited by the capabilities of today’s graphics adaptors which can not keep up with this chip (nor the PIII 600 for that matter), and its application in high end graphics work is impressive. Whilst this chip is very near the high end of the processing spectrum, we at the Processor Emporium find it very hard to recommend it due to its sheer price tag. This is of course a sentiment that we stated at the launch of the Pentium III a few months ago, but of course this will change as newer and faster chips are introduced. When this chip becomes the volume Athlon and its price tag drops to a lower level, it will of course be worth buying. Update
By the time the Athlon 600 was phased out in June 2000, it was astonishing value at just over £100. This chip paired with a good KX133
based motherboard is still highly recommended.
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