AMD 4x4 Quad Father, Quad Core CPU Details Emerge

JiminyDigits writes "AMD recently revealed a few more details of their upcoming quad-core platform architecture called 4X4. With CPU bundles affectionately dubbed 'Quad Father,' AMD is taking advantage of the inherent benefits of their HyperTransport interconnect technology to directly connect a pair of dual Athlon 64 desktop chips together with system memory. Details here show a dual socket motherboard that support a whopping 12 SATA connections, four X16 PCI Express slots (x16,x8,x16,x8 configuration) and few other bells and whistles. Supposedly Quad Father kits will come with matched CPUs from 2.6GHz up to 3GHz."

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= 4 Acentral Processing Units

[Doc Ruby]

With two CPU chips with 2 cores each, shouldn't that be called "2X2"?

Hey, with 2 microprocessors, can they still be called "Central Processing Units", when each is "offcenter" to the other?

My upgrade path...

[Josiah_Bradley]

I upgraded from Socket A to Socket AM2 this summer with 4x4 in mind, but now they say it's only being supported on socket 1207. I bought a nice 150$ 3800X2 planning on saving up and getting another one with this new 4x4 I have been hearing about for a while. They keep saying things are future proof, yet they go and change the socket type and then make it so you can only buy the top-end cpus for it to work. Where is the AMD of socket 939 when they had everything from the low-end to the high end totally covered. 4x4 just looks like they are taking their server/workstation tactics and trying to apply it to gamers.

Re:Forced Overkill

[Lord_Dweomer]

Which means it will cost $1000-$2000 just for CPUs and motherboard. AMD's and Intel's quad cores will cost a grand also, which limits all of this to people with more money than sense.

This is called an "early-adopter price". You see, there ARE people with a lot of money...and contrary to your statement, they may, and probably do have plenty of sense, they just have more disposable income than you. They buy these when they first come out, and a year or two down the line when they are buying the next hottest toy on the market, companies will be forced to drop the prices on this bad boy so that the rest of us can afford it.

Don't bitch about the price of this just because you're jealous you can't afford it. Just realize that that is how the market works.

Re:Forced Overkill

[modecx]

Heck, I remember paying 900 US bucks on a CD writer way back when 2x cd recording was blazing fast, and 8x reading was just becoming available... Oh, and discs could scarcely be found for less than $10 each at that time.

I considered it some of the best $900 I ever spent, and I still do. No regrets. In fact, it's still humming along in my Indigo2, which I pulled out of the scrap bin some years later.

$1000 bucks for a system loaded with quad processors won't scare many people off. $1000 for a motherboard might, however.