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| Thread ID: 62526 | 2005-10-10 20:28:00 | AMD Roadmap | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 395046 | 2005-10-10 20:28:00 | AMD has confirmed on the Socket M2 design and will be unveiling the Socket M2 processors in Q2 2006. Single-core Athlon 64/FX "Orleans" and Dual-core Athlon 64 X2 "Windsor" will be based on 90nm processor technology and will support DDR-II 667 memory bus, bi-directional 1GHz HT bus, Presidio Security as well Pacifica Virtualization. The Athlon 64 X2 5000+ is based on "Windsor" core and is clocked at 2.667GHz (8.0 x 333.3MHz) and contains 2 x 1MB L2. Pacifica blends AMD64 technology with Direct Connect architecture, a processor design AMD uses to link the core CPU with the memory controllers and the other I/O circuits. Pacifica helps protect computers against viruses and spyware because it uses Enhanced Virus Protection technology enabled features in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. Pacifica is intended to improve upon traditional software-based virtualization approaches. Socket M2 will be initially supported by future Opteron 1xx parts, while the two-way and four-way versions of AMD's server chip family will use Socket F. M2 will use a 940-pin port, it seems, while F will use 1207 pins. Both interconnects will presumably pave the way for the quad-core processors AMD expects to ship in 2007, but they will also be used by single- and dual-core chips too. M2 and F will replace AMD's current array of interconnects: Socket 754, used by Sempron and Athlon 64 parts; Socket 939, used by Athlon 64 and Athlon 64-FX; and Socket 940, used by Opteron 1xx, 2xx and 8xx processors. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 395047 | 2005-10-11 02:10:00 | Might help if someone translated it into English for us dumb buggers. All I wantto know , which one is the best. I think I might wait for a Pentium 5. Or an Athlon 5000+. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 395048 | 2005-10-11 02:23:00 | Dual core is the way of the future, though I personally wouldn't jump on that bandwagon just yet, When the cores are faster then what we currently have will be the time to look at them. Hopefully by then they will have widespread software suport as well, they bring slim to no benifit at the moment,and can run many apps/games slower then a single core. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 395049 | 2005-10-11 02:25:00 | Might help if someone translated it into English for us dumb buggers . . Theres new cool CPUs soon . 5Ghz and up . SIngle core and dual core . But you'll need a new motherboard to use them . So will all the new Semprons . But the new motherboards will all use DDR2 - the newer ram . The CPUs will not just be faster but will do more stuff including virus protection and fancy graphics like Vista will use . Your old CPUs won't fit in the new boards . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 395050 | 2005-10-11 02:55:00 | There's been a lot of dreamware in the past supposedly comming up "soon". Is this more of the same? |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 395051 | 2005-10-11 03:08:00 | Roadmaps are where they intend to take their product, Usually the run into a wall and a new roadmap is produced. It all depends on what they can actually do with their hardware (rather then what their sums tell them they can do,P4 roadmap if i recall figured on them running at 6Ghz and beyond) and what lines are selling.Spending 48 billion on a product that is pretty crappy and no one wants will soon cause the roadmap to be set afire and flushed. So, what good is it? It tells us that dual core is the way of the future, that they will have motherboards to match, and they will run Windows Office at a lightning quick pace. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 395052 | 2005-10-11 03:33:00 | woah now we are talking some serious speed, 5ghz :thumbs: | Prescott (11) | ||
| 395053 | 2005-10-11 03:52:00 | Yes office will run at lighting speed, but I dear say the majority of home user's are doing more of photo and video editing then word processing, so the speed will definitely help. Can't actually remember the last time I opened up office at home! |
plod (107) | ||
| 395054 | 2005-10-11 04:08:00 | I get just as many if not more people asking about creating office documents then I do about photo-editing, even with the huge upswing in Digital camera's the vast majority are doing next to nil with them as far as manipulation is concerned. That said, My home rig does anything and everything in PS near instant, well when working on realistic sized photo's, More cpu won't help. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 395055 | 2005-10-11 04:18:00 | Might help if someone translated it into English for us dumb buggers. Cha-ching!!! $$$$$$ :D | FoxyMX (5) | ||
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