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AMD has an ace up its sleeve (processor paradise - coming soon)

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:18 AM EDT
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AMD has pulled a rabbit out of its hat to increase the performance of its existing Phenom triple-core (8000-series) and quad-core (9000-series) processors. Six "hidden pins" on the processors and chipsets are the secret, which, our sources told us, will enable simple overclocking through the southbridge – and accelerate the current processors on demand.

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fugitive247
The name of the game is called "unlocking the multiplier", which will be played with the SB700 and SB750 southbridge chips. If you are running an upcoming 2.8 GHz Black Edition CPU, a motherboard with the old SB600 model (RD690) will keep the processor cores operating at 2.8 GHz. However, if you have a motherboard with the SB700 chipset, you will receive a free upgrade to 3.0 GHz. And if you get a motherboard with a SB750 chip, your processor will run at 3.2 GHz, which matches the clock speed of the Athlon X2 6400+ - the highest clocked processor AMD ever offerred.

Watch your step. I may have drooled a bit too much at the mere thought. Cleanup on aisle seven! ;oD

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Reply#1 - Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:21 AM EDT
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Chris from MN

I'll avoid that aisle!

Question (and I don't mean this in contention, but in curiosity): do you use that kind of speed? I'm curious what sort of work would benefit from it. Number crunching or gaming or simulations?

I'm a programmer and compiles can be fairly compute intensive, but they're usually pretty I/O-bound, too, and sheer CPU speed isn't much help to me.

If this is a case of techo-lust, I fully understand! ☺

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  • 3 votes
Reply#2 - Mon Aug 4, 2008 10:10 PM EDT
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fugitive247

Not merely techno-lust, my friend. Wish I could elaborate further, but someone close to me has an inside track. To say that this is the only ace up AMD's sleeve would be an understatement. ;oD

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  • 2 votes
#2.1 - Mon Aug 4, 2008 11:34 PM EDT
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eriq samson

Chris - gaming / simulations / video and audio applications which use a lot of memory and lots of "channels" (audio, video, data simultaneously). For several years now games have been the most intensive utilizers of processor power and speed

Even medium sized businesses would not get to the number crunching to utilize that speed - and if it is a database type crunching you are tied to disk / data access speeds. Even as a server you would be tied down by disk access.

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#2.2 - Tue Aug 5, 2008 12:16 AM EDT
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Chris from MN

Yep, also (physics) simulation and 3D rendering (ala Pixar).

I know what you mean about games. Back when I was into playing them (Descent was my all-time fav), the new games would come out, and the necessary hardware for playability just wasn't really out, yet. I know the sorts of app that need that juice. I was curious which ones, if any, drove the lust.

Not that there's anything wrong with pure lust!

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  • 2 votes
#2.3 - Tue Aug 5, 2008 1:27 AM EDT
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fugitive247

There's lust. And then there's reality. I can't wait to see firsthand what AMD's baby will be capable of.

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#2.4 - Tue Aug 5, 2008 2:34 AM EDT
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