More Juicy Dual-Processor Goodness

ronmon writes: "I was cruising around bp6.com (I still want one) and happened to see a link to some pics of dual Socket A motherboards. It's in Japanese, so I can't read most of it, but this particular board caught my eye. It's a SuperMicro sporting two sockets and five DIMM slots, plus four drive connectors (IDE RAID?). Yummy!" And credulous reader Jim writes: "This one gave me a start when I woke up this morning. 2CPU.com has a screenshot of sisoft sandra scores from a Dual 1.53GHz (11.5x133)T-bird box. Apparently from an anonymous email. The scores are nothing short of amazing. Check it out." Grain of salt, remember.

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"Juicy"?

[JoeGee]

Maybe peyote juice?

But then again we must remember that this story has been promoted to front page material by the same group that brought us nanopants.

That's not a grain of salt the editor mentions, that's a rock of crack ...

But I digress ...

Why do I strongly suspect this is non-authentic? Does anyone else remember the photograph of the modified Duron that was supposedly being produced by AMD to thwart overclockers. A pin was physically "removed" from the pin interface.

The picture was posted all over the place. Everyone was all up in arms. It was the end of all things.

And then someone noticed that this "modified" processor had the same serial number as an unaltered promotional processor photo from another web site.

NEW FLASH: Overzealous Tech Sites Taken in by Paintshop Pro Forgery ...

Many Japanese tech sites are notorious for posting outrageously altered faux benchmark screens. This would appear to be another one of those posts ...

Multiprocessor Thunderbirds will rock, I am certain. But this is as ridiculous as the recently reported SMP Thunderbird Linux kernel compile that supposedly demonstrated a greater than two times increase in speed between one processor and two ... Yup.

Why couldn't I find people who believe things like this when I was selling electronics? I'd have made a fortune in commission. :)