Funny CPU Core Names

[waynejkruse10]

Have you ever thought about the funny cpu core names that AMD and INTEL make up. Personally i like these ones (mainly because they sound funny):
Little Foot - AMD K6 166-300mhz (sounds funny)
Chompers - AMD K6-2 400-550mhz (sounds funny)
Newcastle - AMD Athlon 64 939/754 (i live in a town called Newcastle)
Sledgehammer - AMD Athlon 64 FX, Opteron 940 (sounds kinda cool)

Klamath - Intel Pentium 2 233-300mhz (sounds kinda cool)
Prestonia - Intel Pentium 4 EE 3200mhz (just that little bit cooler than Prescott)

Is it just me, or does AMD make cooler names than Intel.

Wayne

 

[Harper]

THUNDERBIRD!!!!!
(whistles "Thunderbirds Are Go" theme)

Every time I some one says AMD Thunderbird, I think of Brains from the (classic) Thunderbirds show.


I think intel throws a scabble board up in the air in order to get their names.

 

[Regulus]

Just the names of some of the AMD cpus defines their power. I.E. Sledgehammer.

 

[waynejkruse10]

i just looked at that big toms hardware cpu chart and found the ones i liked. Stupid intel and thier Non creativeness.

 

[PP Mguire]

yea but AMD has had crappy core names like barton. thast not very cool. oh yea and thoroughbred wasnt cool either. But i still love AMD.

 

[waynejkruse10]

i disagree. AMD have much better core names.

AMD:
Little Foot
Chompers
Spitfire
Thunderbird
Sledgehammer
Clawhammer
Newcastle


INTEL:
Covington
Klamath
Deschutes
Coppermine
Prestonia
Gallatin


Ive gathered some more cool cpu core names and the AMD one are still much cooler than the Intel ones.

 

[PP Mguire]

i was just saying that AMD had some lame ones too, like barton.

 

[Harper]

thast not very cool. oh yea and thoroughbred wasnt cool either. But i still love AMD.

thoroughbred makes me think of horses, therefore housepower from cars.

 

[Martin]

Pretty much all of Intel's codenames after Pentium derive from place names (e.g. Tualatin and Klamath are actually rivers in Oregon), whereas AMD seems to have "powerful" names.

 

[waynejkruse10]

thats interesting trivia, lol, i still like little foot and chompers, lol, they sound like pokemon or something stupid like that (lol pokemon)