Sneak Preview of AMD 760MP System

mjg writes: "Overclockers Australia have a sneak preview of a pre-release Tyan Thunder SMP motherboard using the AMD 760MP northbridge and a couple of 1.2GHz "workstation" Palomino (to be renamed AthlonMP) CPUs. The benchmarks are interesting, but should be taken with a grain of salt since this is a fairly early pre-release configuration. There are lots of nice images of the motherboard and CPUs included with the preview."

Comments

Oh no!

[Anonymous Coward]

You Slashdoted Australia! You bastards!

Re:slashdot should mirror before posting

[Now15]

> If slashdot had a clue, they would mirror XYZ
> site before posting, using xxx.slashdot.org, ie
> overclockers.com.au.slashdot.org or something.
> Keep it mirrored for 1week then flush it.

I doubt any site that was funded by banner advertising would appreciate that.

Plus, I doubt that the person who pays Slashdot's bandwidth bill would appreciate either.

Not to mention the murky copyright issues involved...

Simon

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More info...

[dinky]

http://www.enpc.com/enpc/tyans2thun7d.html
http://www.enpc.com/enpc/tyans2thun7d.html

Finally!! but ..

[dgb2n]

This will obviously be a major step for AMD into the server market (at least once they go into full production) but I certainly have my doubts about how well any given setup can dissipate the heat from two Athlon processors.

Even though the Palomino is supposed to generate much less heat, I would imagine that two Athlons will pump out a frightening amount.

Also, it would make sense that a 400W or greater power supply would be necessary. Priced one of those lately?

I could use my Thunderbird 900 as a space heater for my mother-in-law if all the CPU and case fans didn't keep her up at night. She knows better than to turn off my server though ;-)

Re:Interresting benchmarks

[C0vardeAn0nim0]

Probably because this is an early prototype that needs some optimizations.

Sometimes I read Tom's Hardware for news on processors and stuff, and according to their benchmarks Athlon is faster for somethings (like integers and floating point when using it's internal x87 unit) while P4 is faster for other things (multimedia and floating point when using it's brand new SSE unit).

And yes, clock by clock P3 can be faster than P4 in some benchmarks.

Re:Slashdotted

[Agg]

Yes, that's right. You're very clever and we're all very proud of you. Run along now, the adults are talking.

let me guess

[Proud Geek]

It's /.'d, so I can't read it, but let me guess. This:

The benchmarks are interesting, but should be taken with a grain of salt since this is a fairly early pre-release configuration.

means that an Intel based system whooped it ass.