AMD Quad-Core Opteron (Barcelona) Tech Report

crazyeyes writes "AMD has been very tardy with Barcelona. Countless AMD fans have eagerly awaited a new processor. As the day draws closer, TechARP takes a look at the upcoming quad-core AMD Opteron. Is there more to it than just its four processing cores? Will it be the Intel-killer that AMD promised long ago? From the article: 'AMD is in the same boat as ATI. Delays after delays of their long-awaited Barcelona core not only ensured the dominance of their rival, Intel, in the desktop processor market, it also ensured that Intel would be the only choice for those who want a quad-core processor. Although that wait will end in August, 2007 when the Barcelona is finally launched, it remains to be seen if AMD's new processor will be able to inflict serious damage to Intel's dominance.'"

Comments

Finally

[eneville]

Finally I can run four things at once on Windows without a block.

Re:Benchmarks, Price, Release date-I SINCERELY DOU

[Joe The Dragon]

running VISTA + anti virus + background apps with rendering / cad or video work can tax a system even more so with some of carp that some schools make you run on your system can tax it.

Games are a other thing that can push systems also it not just the cpu that gets taxed in is also the ram, IO , hard disks , network, video and so on.