AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core Chips Released

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 31, 2005 @08:20AM from the oh-yeah? dept.

HaloPhreak writes "InformationWeek reports today that AMD has released the Athlon 64 X2 for the high end desktop. Intel and AMD have been competing to get these out as soon as possible, but I think it will be interesting to see what AMD will do with the mobile version of this processor, due out in 2006." From the article: "Both companies have been in a tight race to deliver the processors since engineers realized that simply ratcheting up the clock speed of single-core chips was creating too much heat and not producing the same improvements seen in previous models."

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Re:Can AMD compete at these prices? by sunwukong · 2005-05-31 09:53 · Score: 0, Redundant

The AMD ones will work with current Socket 939 boards, providing the board maker provides a bios upgrade.

Not necessarily true, as we owners of Tyan's K8S Pro (S2882) Opteron boards are finding out. With these (seemingly very good) dual-cpu server boards, we thought we were buying scalability at least through to dual core, but VRM issues (i.e., Tyan likely used the cheapest parts to comply with the single-core spec) have Tyan disowning any dual-core compatibility ...

Needless to say there are a bunch of us pissed-off server owners!