AMD Opteron Due In April

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday March 15, 2003 @09:07AM from the grain-of-salt-please dept.

updog writes "Here's an article from Infoworld claiming that the new 64-bit AMD Opteron is ready to launch on April 22. Some of the notable features of the new chip are an address space capable of addressing up to 1 Terabyte of memory, the ability to link up to 8 processors without any external chips, and backwards compatibility with existing 32-bit applications ..." PapaFSmurf, meanwhile, links to a disclaimer-heavy article posted at amdboard.com which says that 64-bit Athlons may arrive in June rather than September as previously expected.

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Re:Whoa by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-15 09:14 · Score: 5, Funny

I think you're confused. Only Intel chips make the internet faster.
AMD's naming scheme... by DJPenguin · 2003-03-15 09:17 · Score: 4, Funny

Duron? Opteron? Who comes up with these? They sound like types of rubber, or possibly fuel additives...
1. Re:AMD's naming scheme... by JudgeFurious · 2003-03-15 09:39 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I think they sound like Decepticons personally but maybe that's just too much time spent watching Transformers as a kid.
  
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Oh wonderful...I just upgraded by Guysdrinkingbeer · 2003-03-15 09:22 · Score: 5, Funny

No, I ma not making a joke. Yesterday, Friday March 15 2003 I bought my new Soyo KT400 Dragon motherboard and a AMD 2600 Athlon with 333 bus. I have been cutting edge for 24 hours.
I never will win.

On a more positive note, any body know of motherboards for these monsters yet?

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No Matter How Much Ram You Have by The+Analog+Kid · 2003-03-15 10:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Windows is still going to use the swap file.
Re:Only 1 TB? by JamieF · 2003-03-15 10:14 · Score: 4, Funny

So, if you like storage systems that can hold >1024 TB...

does that make you a "peta-phile"?

Yuk yuk yuk.