Originally posted by Ramuman:
Do you have any proof of this? I haven't heard of any chipsets close to release based on PC 333 DDR RAM. JEDEC might have approved the stadard, but we're not at the point of seeing it soon in my opinion. Perhaps Q2 or later. Going to 333 DDR would be almost useless without a synchronous bus and there are few things to indicate a departure from the 266 FSB at least in the life of the Athlon XP.

Also, the voltage and the power consumption come as little surprise imo. AMD won't be increasing the number of transistors by any signifigant quantity with the Tbred (read the 256KB L2 cache) and they've implemented a large amount of the .13 process into their current .18 Athlon XP core. The voltage drop likely stems from a full switch over to .13 and as such is less of a power consumption drop and scalability increase then for example the move from .25 Al to .18 Cu (the older K7s vs. the Thunderbirds) or the move from .18 Al to .13 Cu for the P4.

I believe the Tbred will be a much smaller performance/process improvement then was the Palomino over the Tunderbird. If Barton uses SOI and has a large L2 cache, then it might be to the Tbred what the Tulatin was to the Coppermine, that is a nice improvement on a dated and arguably on the way out core.
"DDR333 enables 2.7 GB/s peak bandwidth
3 x 184-pin DIMM sockets support up to 3 GB of PC2700/PC2100 DDR memory"
http://www.iwillusa.com/products/spe...3-R&SupportID=

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