If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
AMD to demonstrate dual-core chips
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 02:26:55 -0500, Ed wrote:
AMD to demonstrate dual-core chips By Michael Kanellos CNET News.com August 30, 2004, 9:00 PM PT Aiming to deflate archrival Intel, Advanced Micro Devices this week will show off its dual-core chips, which will start to trickle out toward the middle of next year. AMD on Tuesday will show off a Hewlett-Packard ProLiant server with four dual-core Opteron chips at a facility in Austen, Texas, bringing the functional number of chips in four-processor servers to eight. more... http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5330737.html Holy crap! Those things just taped out in June! From tape-out to "working well enough to publicly demonstrate" in just 3 months? That's got to be a good sign for AMD! Ok, it's still a long way before the chips actually reach our hands, and the "demonstration" might end up being little more than powering the system on (though an AMD rep did indicate that it would at least boot into Windows properly). Good news for me as well, since I'm hoping to hold out on my next major desktop upgrade until I can drop a dual-core processor into a commodity motherboard for a reasonable price. Previously I had figured that I would have to wait until 2006 before this would be a reality, not believing the previous release dates. However maybe AMD really will make their mid-2005 schedule? ------------- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Bitstring , from the
wonderful person Tony Hill said snip Good news for me as well, since I'm hoping to hold out on my next major desktop upgrade until I can drop a dual-core processor into a commodity motherboard for a reasonable price. Please form an orderly queue (behind me). I've been gritting my teeth waiting for that for about 6 months already. 8. -- GSV Three Minds in a Can Outgoing Msgs are Turing Tested,and indistinguishable from human typing. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Ed wrote: AMD to demonstrate dual-core chips By Michael Kanellos CNET News.com August 30, 2004, 9:00 PM PT Aiming to deflate archrival Intel, Advanced Micro Devices this week will show off its dual-core chips, which will start to trickle out toward the middle of next year. AMD on Tuesday will show off a Hewlett-Packard ProLiant server with four dual-core Opteron chips at a facility in Austen, Texas, bringing the functional number of chips in four-processor servers to eight. more... http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5330737.html WOT??? |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Tony Hill wrote:
snip : Holy crap! Those things just taped out in June! ^^^^^^^^^^ == Says Robin to Batman ;-) more snip : Good news for me as well, since I'm hoping to hold out on my next : major desktop upgrade until I can drop a dual-core processor into a : commodity motherboard for a reasonable price. Previously I had : figured that I would have to wait until 2006 before this would be a : reality, not believing the previous release dates. However maybe AMD : really will make their mid-2005 schedule? Me too (three?)! But wait a minute, Tony. Just WHO is going to supply the mobo (or more accurately, the chipset), for such a beast? **Please** don't say VIA!! :-( J. |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
"jack" wrote in message ... Tony Hill wrote: snip : Holy crap! Those things just taped out in June! ^^^^^^^^^^ == Says Robin to Batman ;-) more snip : Good news for me as well, since I'm hoping to hold out on my next : major desktop upgrade until I can drop a dual-core processor into a : commodity motherboard for a reasonable price. Previously I had : figured that I would have to wait until 2006 before this would be a : reality, not believing the previous release dates. However maybe AMD : really will make their mid-2005 schedule? Me too (three?)! But wait a minute, Tony. Just WHO is going to supply the mobo (or more accurately, the chipset), for such a beast? **Please** don't say VIA!! :-( J. Any chipset that supports the Opteron will support the dual core chips just fine (if I am correct) .. I think the main difference to the system is that it just see's a flag on the cpu that says "dual processor". The a64 chips were made around two cores being on a single chip (die? dunno) so I think the biggest limitation is simply tryhing to get everything into thermal spec. If you have two 80w processors on top of each other then I dont think it would work well.. Get them down to 50w (or less) then they would work .. They say that you can take your opteron board, yank out the opteron single core processor and trhow one of these in and it will work (We will def see) |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
rstlne wrote:
: "jack" wrote in message : ... :: Tony Hill wrote: :: snip :: ::: Holy crap! Those things just taped out in June! :: ^^^^^^^^^^ == Says Robin to Batman ;-) :: more snip :: ::: Good news for me as well, since I'm hoping to hold out on my next ::: major desktop upgrade until I can drop a dual-core processor into :: a ::: commodity motherboard for a reasonable price. Previously I had ::: figured that I would have to wait until 2006 before this would be :: a ::: reality, not believing the previous release dates. However maybe :: AMD ::: really will make their mid-2005 schedule? :: :: Me too (three?)! But wait a minute, Tony. Just WHO is going to :: supply the mobo (or more accurately, the chipset), for such a beast? :: **Please** don't say VIA!! :-( :: :: J. : : Any chipset that supports the Opteron will support the dual core : chips just fine (if I am correct) .. : I think the main difference to the system is that it just see's a : flag on the cpu that says "dual processor". : The a64 chips were made around two cores being on a single chip (die? : dunno) so I think the biggest limitation is simply tryhing to get : everything into thermal spec. If you have two 80w processors on top : of each other then I dont think it would work well.. Get them down to : 50w (or less) then they would work .. : They say that you can take your opteron board, yank out the opteron : single core processor and trhow one of these in and it will work (We : will def see) What you have to say is all fine and dandy, but does **nothing** to alleviate my fears of VIA chipsets and their [almost] legendary ability to produce what I affectionately call "Bug-sets." Nuff said. J. |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
jack wrote:
What you have to say is all fine and dandy, but does **nothing** to alleviate my fears of VIA chipsets and their [almost] legendary ability to produce what I affectionately call "Bug-sets." Nuff said. Don't worry, most of the servers use the AMD 8000-series chipset. Nvidia is also said to be producing an Nforce specifically geared towards servers. And Serverworks is also bringing out a chipset. Once Nvidia and Serverworks are abord, I think the AMD 8000's will slowly disappear (except in the case of ULi, which produces a clone of the 8000 under license). Yousuf Khan |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 11:32:43 +0200, jack wrote:
Tony Hill wrote: snip : Holy crap! Those things just taped out in June! ^^^^^^^^^^ == Says Robin to Batman ;-) more snip : Good news for me as well, since I'm hoping to hold out on my next : major desktop upgrade until I can drop a dual-core processor into a : commodity motherboard for a reasonable price. Previously I had : figured that I would have to wait until 2006 before this would be a : reality, not believing the previous release dates. However maybe AMD : really will make their mid-2005 schedule? Me too (three?)! But wait a minute, Tony. Just WHO is going to supply the mobo (or more accurately, the chipset), for such a beast? **Please** don't say VIA!! :-( Talking about an irrational fear! Viaphobia? Hint1: Via isn't the only chipset maker in the world. Hint2: AMD makes chipsets that support 940. Hint3: Get a friggin' grip on reality! -- Keith (on an Opteron 144 w/AMD chipset) |
#9
|
|||
|
|||
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 11:32:43 +0200, "jack" wrote:
Tony Hill wrote: snip : Holy crap! Those things just taped out in June! ^^^^^^^^^^ == Says Robin to Batman ;-) more snip : Good news for me as well, since I'm hoping to hold out on my next : major desktop upgrade until I can drop a dual-core processor into a : commodity motherboard for a reasonable price. Previously I had : figured that I would have to wait until 2006 before this would be a : reality, not believing the previous release dates. However maybe AMD : really will make their mid-2005 schedule? Me too (three?)! But wait a minute, Tony. Just WHO is going to supply the mobo (or more accurately, the chipset), for such a beast? **Please** don't say VIA!! :-( J. Why not VIA? My Master2-FAR mobo with 2 of these dual-core babies will make quite a good quad system on the (relatively) cheap. Even with current 2xOpteron242 it makes a decent system, and runs since April with (knock on wood) not a single glitch. I just hope MSI will produce the BIOS update that may be necessary for the upgrade. |
#10
|
|||
|
|||
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 11:32:43 +0200, "jack" wrote:
Tony Hill wrote: snip : Holy crap! Those things just taped out in June! ^^^^^^^^^^ == Says Robin to Batman ;-) more snip : Good news for me as well, since I'm hoping to hold out on my next : major desktop upgrade until I can drop a dual-core processor into a : commodity motherboard for a reasonable price. Previously I had : figured that I would have to wait until 2006 before this would be a : reality, not believing the previous release dates. However maybe AMD : really will make their mid-2005 schedule? Me too (three?)! But wait a minute, Tony. Just WHO is going to supply the mobo (or more accurately, the chipset), for such a beast? **Please** don't say VIA!! :-( nVidia's nForce3 chipsets are already available in motherboards that will support these chips! AMD's 8000 series chipset should work too, and even SiS if you so desired (though I've never seen an SiS based Opteron board). That's the beauty of AMD's dual-core Opterons, they are fully compatible with any Socket 940 motherboard as long as it can manage the regular (single-core) 90nm Opterons. Given that most (all?) Opteron boards being built today are capable of handling these 90nm Opterons, finding a compatible board should be very easy. If you read about the demo you'll notice that they were able to drop 4 dual-core Opterons into a plain old HP DL585 server with only a BIOS update. No special hardware required at all! ------------- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
|
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Dual Core cpu 2 SLi 6800 GTs, will this be gaming bliss ? | The Other Guy. | General | 6 | January 9th 05 05:07 AM |
Dual Core Processors & MoBo | k_yhz | General | 2 | January 5th 05 08:43 PM |
HyperThreading dual core cpu will their be one ??? | The Other Guy. | General | 0 | November 26th 04 09:40 PM |
OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 Dual Channel Platinum what chips does it use ? | OCZ Guy | General | 10 | June 30th 04 06:48 PM |
Quad Cpu Mobo with Dual Core CPUS how fast would that be ? | We Live for the One we Die for the One | General | 0 | June 14th 04 10:16 PM |