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AMD Socket F (AM2) Next Gen processors

As these are server chips (it was running Server 2003 variety of Windows) are they using EEC ram or standard?

Still looks very interesting even so - but mightly expensive undoubtedly with quad cores.
 
They are using registered memory, (i think thats what the R means in the everest memory benchies anyway)

I would have thought they would be on 65nm though
 
Defcon5 said:
They are using registered memory, (i think thats what the R means in the everest memory benchies anyway)

I would have thought they would be on 65nm though
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Ok I wasnt sure as I havent ever used Everest

I think this was a quickly hatched plan by AMD after they saw Conroe results, its good but not good enough in my opinion , and very sad news
 
Do things have to be programmed for a certain no. of cores or do they just have to be multi thraeded?


If its the latter then these must be uber quick
 
Defcon5 said:
Do things have to be programmed for a certain no. of cores or do they just have to be multi thraeded?


If its the latter then these must be uber quick
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Thats a very good question - well I think it is anyway

I would guess that as long as its multi-threaded then any multi core/ multi- cpu system would take advantage as much as possible

Saying that of course, its possible that there may only be certain operations that can be done in parallel - so whether you have 2 cores or 8 wont make that much difference.

Possibly a cop-out explanation :D
 
One thread runs on one core at one time (Of course though the CPU switches between threads otherwise things would start to hang if it couldn't multi-task). So if an application has 6 threads and you have 8 cores then only 6 cores can process the threads. It automatically scales so a program doesnt have to be built for a certain amount of cores, it just has to put significant tasks onto different threads.
 
Pulseammo said:
One thread runs on one core at one time (Of course though the CPU switches between threads otherwise things would start to hang if it couldn't multi-task). So if an application has 6 threads and you have 8 cores then only 6 cores can process the threads. It automatically scales so a program doesnt have to be built for a certain amount of cores, it just has to put significant tasks onto different threads.
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Thats what I was trying to say in the first part of my post thank you much better explanation

I was going to rephrase the second part but it then sounded completely stupid so I will stop now :D
 
confussed

i am confussed at those screen shots and below I have listed my reasons:
1) all the road maps i've read for AMD say that they are planning quad core in 2007/8, so how come that is a quad core.
2) Please correct me if i am wrong (i most probly am) i thought that socket F would be using 65nm tech, so why is that processor using 90nm,
3) the chip set in use is the Nforce 4, when all the chipsets i have found for AM2 and F have been the Nforce 5 series.

if i am taking coblers tell me & i will keep quiet, but it doesn't seam right to me, but that's just my opinion
 
milkinc13 said:
i am confussed at those screen shots and below I have listed my reasons:
1) all the road maps i've read for AMD say that they are planning quad core in 2007/8, so how come that is a quad core.
2) Please correct me if i am wrong (i most probly am) i thought that socket F would be using 65nm tech, so why is that processor using 90nm,
3) the chip set in use is the Nforce 4, when all the chipsets i have found for AM2 and F have been the Nforce 5 series.

if i am taking coblers tell me & i will keep quiet, but it doesn't seam right to me, but that's just my opinion
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Remember server chips that are quad cores have been around for quite a reasonable time already, (s940) even though I am not 100% sure this would make it nforce 4 and 90nm
 
FrankJH said:
Remember server chips that are quad cores have been around for quite a reasonable time already, (s940) even though I am not 100% sure this would make it nforce 4 and 90nm
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i can admit that i didn't know quad core server chips had been out (holds hands up), but it's the chipset that confusses me and that it is socket "F" as far as I know it hasn't been realeased
 
Socket F has not been released (clearly), but coolaler gets a lot of early tech and benches it for the masses over at xtremesystems.

Man that quad core must run hot :eek:

Pretty sure there aren't any quad core socket 940 chips, you can have 2x dual core though.
 
I still havent seen any games that take advantage of dual core.

Do these cpus have that feature that combines all the cores into one, like anti-hyperthreading?
 
FrankJH said:
Remember server chips that are quad cores have been around for quite a reasonable time already, (s940) even though I am not 100% sure this would make it nforce 4 and 90nm
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thats news to me...
where have you seen socket940 quad cores before now?
are you getting confused with the 1, 2 and 8-way opterons.... based on the number of hypertransport links that they have??
 
just had a look at those benchies and isn't it just 2 x Dual-cores??

where are the quad cores?
If its on 90nm its not gonna be quad core, AMD won't make a 90nm quadcore..?!?
 
Kamakazie! said:
just had a look at those benchies and isn't it just 2 x Dual-cores??

where are the quad cores?
If its on 90nm its not gonna be quad core, AMD won't make a 90nm quadcore..?!?
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Yeah youre right i think
 
Kamakazie! said:
If its on 90nm its not gonna be quad core, AMD won't make a 90nm quadcore..?!?
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Thats what I thought, would make no sense for AMD. They're gonna go 65 as soon as possible. 90nm quad core would run so hot

Edit, probably CPU-Z just not reading it properly actually...
 
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