AMD Athlon 64 6000+ Launched And Tested

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @02:46AM from the kicking-the-tires-lighting-the-fires dept.

Spinnerbait writes "AMD officially launched their next speed bump in the Athlon 64 product line, in the form of a new 3GHz part branded the Athlon 64 6000+. This new dual-core Athlon 64 sports 1MB of on-chip cache per core and is designed for AMD's Socket AM2 platform. This chip is still built on AMD's 90nm fab node and is comprised of some 227 million transistors. It also carries a thermal power profile of about 125Watts. Unfortunately, in all the benchmarks seen here, it was still unable to catch Intel's Core 2 Duo E6700 chip at 2.66GHz."

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DOS by Short+Circuit · 2007-02-20 02:51 · Score: 5, Interesting

I've always wanted to try running DOS on a processor with 1MB of L2 cache...there's just something retro wicked about running an OS where the entire base memory fits in on-die cache.

I have to wonder if qemu and the kernel's kvm will allow me to dedicate an entire core to a DOS image.

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