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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."
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Linux is STILL for fags.
I'm not sure why. I just read the article, and the only information it had was why it will need a new heatsink/fan for many people. There was no other useful information in the 3 page article.
Unfortunately that article is a couple days old, and the only new information is that current heatsinks won't be compatible with the new socket.
3 pages to tell me it has a new socket and a different heatsink clip. Yeah, that's much more informative.