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AMD Quad-Core Opteron (Barcelona) Tech Report

Posted by Zonk on from the lovely-place-for-a-chip dept.

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.'"

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  1. Aburrídoooo. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    * La gente ya tiene PCs y no quiere comprar más.

    * A la gente no le gusta que lleve código cerrado, código propietario, y todos los follones propios del nuevo PC.

    * La gente compradora no se complica la vida, no lo compra y ya está.
      Y por eso, no compra PCs con código cerrado, propietario, etc. de qué le sirve esto si es para meter más follones?
    * La gente recuerda la inutilidad e impopularidad de sistemas propietarios como SCO, Tru64, AIX, Solaris, .. y sus sistemas no llegan a superar el 5% del mercado mundial. Muchos son abandonados en obsoletos.

    Esta es la lista de follones actuales:
    * Pones 4 GiB y sólo te va 3.3 GiB, y 0.7 GiB es inútil por culpa del puto PC.
    * AMD no colabora en nada con la comunidad libre o de opensource.
    * Todavía sigue con la política de código "binario" cerrado de los drivers de ATI y nVidia.
    * La comunidad libre está muy ocupado, no tiene especificaciones de los componentes propietarios de fabricantes de hardware, pierden mucho tiempo, y la mayoría abandonan en nada dejando la minoría en aprieto.

    Yo compraría un PC de 64 bits multicore de coste normal si este PC es capaz de soportar 8 o 16 GiB de RAM sin que aparezca un comentario de "problema" en Internet. Me da igual si es AMD64 que Alpha o Sparc64 o RISC64. ya que siempre voy a usar Linux y FreeBSD.

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  2. Re:That's what you get... by Windowser · · Score: 1, Troll

    Which is why the big boys run serious 64-bit OSs: RHEL, SLES, Solaris, Windows 2003.

    You lost all credibility when you included Windows 2003 in that phrase.
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  3. Re:Better quad-core how? by LuSiDe · · Score: 1, Troll

    Intel can stuff two dual core dies in a package and still not exceed the TDP of AMD's FX series.
    1) However, AMD's FX series have a far lower idle W (9 versus 35 on Intel, or something).
    2) If you use AMD's X2/EE versions your TDP gets far lower (whereas cost of CPU increases by merely a couple of bucks). If you use X2/EE/SFF you get a TDP of 35W.
    3) Price/performance wise, AMD is still a clear winner, hands down.
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  4. you iN5ensitive clod! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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