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AMD 4x4 Named Quad FX

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Azza

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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5134


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dual socket systems really are becomming a thing of the past now. So your going to need 2 heatsinks, so thats more money to spend, more heat probably, more noise, more power, less space available for airflow inside the case etc. Seems awfully low tech to me. Looking at those early benchmarks, AMD looks like its gonna get its butt kicked all over again. Just a server board really...
 
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It's also ridiculously expensive and that motherboard has an awful layout. 1x pci slot, 2x pci-e 16x slots, 2x pci-e 8x slots, 1x pci-e 1x slot, 12 sata ports, 1x ide port. Look at where the memory slots are, right between the cpu's so they are going to get all the heat. On top of that to obtain the quoted performance you will need to have all four slots occupied. The power sockets are also in an awful place.

On top of that we have the price. Over $300 for the motherboard and $599, $799 and $999 for the set of cpu's depending on if you go for the FX-70/72/74, 2.6/2.8/3.0GHz parts. Judging on the way we have been shafted in the past on prices substitute the £ sign for the $ sign and you have a very expensive set up even without memory, graphics card(s) etc. This is supposed to be targeting the enthusiast but it is only the extremely well off who will be able to afford this set up.

For more details see the Inquirer .
 
Not sure what angle AMD are going for here.....Enthusiasts may wanna pick up this package.....but only a limited number of enthusiasts. Like XtAsY said, dual core mobo's are a thing of the past, unless its server based. And yes, the price tags are ludacris as well. Coupled with ridiculous prices, high heat properties and insane power consumptions, this is a plan destined to not work very well :(
 
interesting... althought i can't help but feel that this is but a 'stop-gap' solution to compete with intel until amd are ready to release the native quad-core 'Brisbane' (?)

This offering seems to very much be a hash of all sorts just piled together.. with insane power requirements!
 
Why would you not go for a dual opteron solution, too expensive, no PCI slots as opposed to this?

It will scale to 2x 4core when they become available and if it gets crossfire or SLI options then it could really perform. It is targeted at the Workstation market as much as anything hence the 12 SATA ports and large scale RAID capability I would imagine.
 
*is* glad he got the QX6700. ;)


I wonder how any o/c will fare on that board, as it'll be a hell of a lot harder to cool.
 
quad SLI capable, and apparantly the CPU, FX-7x range start at £600 for a pair !!!

If ony the software were truely capable of taking advanatage of dual dual core now. Vista might be though, defo a OS for that platform, more so than XP is as Vista is based on Windows 2003 Kernel. I guess that the upcoming 2.9 Linux kernel might rock on it too. Not sure about applications though
 
The only real advantage I can see to this platform by amd is the ability to run 8 core (2x native quad core) upon release. (for the consumer/enthusiast market)

Other than that its a bit of a dissapointment.

What is annoying though is the fact that intel and AMD are going all out with multi cored cpus yet the software (especially games) is lagging very far behind. (ie what games benefit from quad core?!)

Does anyone also think its a tad strange considering amd own ati that the board they are using to showcase this technology is sli capable and not CF.
 
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