AMD has been very quiet about the whole Athlon 64 situation, and although the official release is still expected (http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?&threadid=4134&highlight=Athlon) for the end of this September, we have all been wondering about actual MHz rates and if the processors will carry a PR rating or not.

One AMDZone (http://www.amdzone.com/) reader found a pretty good hint of what we should expect for the first batch of Athlon 64s: "this pdf (http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/bph08342/bph08342.pdf) on HP's site that reveals an Athlon 64 3100+ powered computer with the CPU runs at 1.8GHz. It uses the VIA K8T400M chipset for the motherboard. So we have a speed rating, a MHz, and learn that HP is planning a system."

Let's remember we are still months away from official release & AMD has been showing these 1.8GHz CPUs for sometime now (now we get to know a PR rating), I'm hoping for speedier models that will hopefully will bring a whole new level of performance to the masses.

As a side note, AMD today introduced three new mobile Athlon XP-M (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/31256.html) chips today, taking the line to 2800+ performance and beefing up the chip's low-voltage product family with 1900+ and 2000+ models.