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A First Look at AMD's M2 Platform

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-gonna-be-a-photo-finish dept.

Knight Thrasher writes to tell us that Tom's Hardware has an interesting first look at AMD's AM2 platform. From the article: "While Intel will be answering later this year with its Merom/Conroe processors, AMD officially says that the introduction of its AM2 platform and DDR2 memory support in the second quarter of this year will be able to maintain its current lead. Unofficially, we know that AMD will launch six dual-core and two single-core AM2 processors on June 6 - later than initially expected but well in time for Intel's Conroe, which will be introduced in September. Tom's Hardware got its hands on a stable engineering sample of an Athlon 64 X2 4800+ for Socket AM2 and will publish benchmark results as first as a first impression of the new Socket and processors tomorrow."

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  1. Annoying Writing by JakartaDean · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    From TFA:
    In a seemingly effortless way, AMD has been able to counter virtually every single one of Intel's attempts to regain desktop performance leadership with its current product generation.
    If you're going to write this badly, it's probably a good thing if you don't have anything to say.
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  2. Re:DDR2? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Am I the only one disappointed in this rather fast change to an even newer socket MB?

    Yes. Just because you don't have the money to upgrade doesn't mean the rest of us don't. Go complain about your lack of funds elsewhere.
  3. Fuck you ScatMonkey... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How hard is it to read a story before you post it? Isn't that the function of an editor? Eat shit and die, ScatMonkey...