A First Look at AMD's M2 Platform

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."

Comments

Ahhh yes

[OverlordQ]

and will publish benchmark results as first as a first impression of the new Socket and processors tomorrow.

Nice to see the Editors are living up to their name.

This is the first step towards duplicates

[BadAnalogyGuy]

1) Publish story about fancypants new platform being delivered to reviewers
2) Reveal that the benchmarks won't be available until later
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7) Dupe!

(Actually 4-6 are also duplicates)

Evil

[Belial6]

If they actually release it on June 6th 2006, (6/6/6) they should work out some kind of deal with ID to include a free copy of Doom3 with each processor for the rest of the year. If not, they should do SOME kind of fun thing with it. Although, they will probably chicken out, just like when they clock doubled the 333mhz processors, somehow they ended up with 665mhz.

DDR2

[jeeperscats]

Yes! AMD has DDR2, I wonder how long it will take Intel to catch up with them on that one....oh wait, nevermind.

Re:Article Vaporware

[pimpimpim]

You can still get that functionality, just turn off the 'Flux Capacitor' option in your Preferences.