[QUOTE=Pixel Heart;20869340]I'm not sure about AMD's naming schemes, but being a former intel employee and living near 2 intel plants, I have noticed they like to name their chip series' after places here in Oregon. I have a Prescott-based Pentium 4, and Prescott beach is where I fish for sturgeon and steelhead. Nehalem is a river here in Oregon. You get the idea. I have always wondered if AMD does the same, being based in California.[/QUOTE]
The AMD Phenoms are named after Stars. The Opterons are named after well known cities or places like Istanbul or Barcelona.
Can't wait to see some external benchmarking on these.
I wonder if there are any applications that are optimized for this...
Grr! And I am just about to get my AMD 965! (Well 955, but we all know I won't be leaving it below 965 clocks)
Glad(os) it is still AMD3 though.
I might have to get one of these when my 955 stops being amazing.
I want to know if my [url=http://asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=0KyowHKUFAQqH2DO]M4A78 EM[/url] can handle this
I have heard rumors of these only being ddr3 capable can anybody prove or disprove this.
[QUOTE=sbradford26;20887204]I have heard rumors of these only being ddr3 capable can anybody prove or disprove this.[/QUOTE]
No, but if DDR3 provides the substantial boost in performance it did with the i7's then I'm going to go for a full motherboard replacement.
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When I say no, I mean I can't confirm or disprove it.
Clearing that up...
[QUOTE=Unreliable;20887611]No, but if DDR3 provides the substantial boost in performance it did with the i7's then I'm going to go for a full motherboard replacement.
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When I say no, I mean I can't confirm or disprove it.
Clearing that up...[/QUOTE]
KK I have just heard rumblings about it.
Thuban is confirmed to be compatible with AM2+ boards.
[QUOTE=CPShArp;20890558]Thuban is confirmed to be compatible with AM2+ boards.[/QUOTE]
good
Oh damnit, i bought a Phenom II 965 x4 just 2 weeks ago
ill still go with an i7 940. I heard that they overclock better than the 920 and generally have better performance. Also so i can buy the cheap i9s once they start coming out.
PS: New intel six core is i7 980X
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PS: New intel six core is i7 980X[/QUOTE]
there has been a thread about it for like a week now
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PS: New intel six core is i7 980X[/QUOTE]
its going to be a million dollars!!!
its ~$1100 on newegg now this is about the AMD 6 core not intel 6 core
[QUOTE=Robbazking;20895744]X6 1055T 2,8ghz will only be 199usd.
And i bet it will beat quad i7's in cpu heavy stuff for only a fraction of the price.[/QUOTE]
Dont run your mouth until the benches are out.
Just a friendly piece of advice/warning.
This will make my AMD Phenom 9550 obsolete. :P
At the time I couldn't afford anything better.
Where the fuck did the rule of thumb - "Numbers of processor cores are always powers of two" go? Before some time, multiprocessor computers always had 2, 4, 8, ... 64 (CRAY) processors. Then AMD came with that silly 3 core one, and since then, they added 6 core ones.
the three core ones actually had 4, people who bought it found out how to unlock that last core. AMD did a dick move by locking that last core.
This seems awesome, probably gonna upgrade to this next time I upgrade my cpu
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;20895986]Where the fuck did the rule of thumb - "Numbers of processor cores are always powers of two" go? Before some time, multiprocessor computers always had 2, 4, 8, ... 64 (CRAY) processors. Then AMD came with that silly 3 core one, and since then, they added 6 core ones.[/QUOTE]
Who gives a shit.
"Oh no I can't sperg on my system built entirely out of powers of two ARMAGEDDON HAS ARRIVED"
[QUOTE=PunchedInFac;20896047]the three core ones actually had 4, people who bought it found out how to unlock that last core. AMD did a dick move by locking that last core.[/QUOTE]
At least the first ones were actually quads with one core faulty.
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PS: New intel six core is i7 980X[/QUOTE]
[url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115223]Yup and check out that attractive price[/url]
Definitely a 6 core for the masses.
[QUOTE=Pixel Heart;20869340]I'm not sure about AMD's naming schemes, but being a former intel employee and living near 2 intel plants, I have noticed they like to name their chip series' after places here in Oregon. I have a Prescott-based Pentium 4, and Prescott beach is where I fish for sturgeon and steelhead. Nehalem is a river here in Oregon. You get the idea. I have always wondered if AMD does the same, being based in California.[/QUOTE]
Thuban is a star, otherwise known as Alpha Draconis.
Also I read somewhere Nehalem was named after the state park, not the river. And I figured Prescott was Prescott, AZ.
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Also, I noticed that the prices of the current Phenom IIs have been going down fairly quickly in the past few weeks. I guess this explains why.
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