Quote Originally Posted by chew* View Post
Yah they did that with athlon xp if your remember, they snuck th axp 3200 in and I think it was one of 2 chips that actually supported ddr 400. I remember cuz i bought it...my 1700 jiuhb clocked better
IIRC, it got a higher model number merely because it supported faster RAM. AMD caught flack because in many cases it was still slower than the older 2800+ plus that had slower RAM but ran at a higher MHz. I hope they don't pull that one again.