AMD's New Venice Core Shows Overclocking Potential

Vigile writes "It looks like the new Venice core processors from AMD are going to offer more than just 90nm technology through the entire line up. According to this article on PC Perspective, it is going to offer a lot of headroom for future processors as the author was able to overclock their 2.0 GHz sample to 2.8 GHz! I think I hear an FX-61 calling my name!"

Comments

water cooling

[essreenim]

..with water brought to you directly from the highly polluted canals of Venice. Sniff, ahhhhh, I love the smell of sewage in my PC..

nt

[Anonymous Coward]

I think I hear an FX-61 calling my name!

Sorry, actually, that's my Intel chip. Noisy bugger.

Bah

[Anonymous Coward]

Bah, only 2.8Ghz! Intel's processors are already up to 3.8! AMD's are pathetic.

for those of you who don't recognize sarcasm, this is a big clue.

Re:uh

[Anonymous Coward]

Warning Independent Thought Detected.

The white van has been dispatched.

You will be taken to the Marketing 101 Re-education center.

Re:Intel-Rating?

[ergo98]

So what does 2.8 Ghz in AMD mean in terms of Intel performance?

Duh...

2.8Ghz -> 9081 AMD Cybermarks -> 84.7 ISO 9011:2005 quartets -> 1.7E10 Intel TruePerfs.

I think that was fairly obvious.

Re:Hmm.

[eobanb]

Because then we'd complain about how we can't overclock it. It's not about technology anymore, it's about psychology.

Re:Non-von Neumann Memory Architecture

[lostchicken]

E=(gamma)mc^2
gamma = (1 - v^2/c^2) ^ (-1/2) =2.3
E = 2.3 * .511MeV/c^2 * c^2 = 1.17 MeV

Yes, that is, in fact, one bad ass beta particle.