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Obi-Wan_Kenobi
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New  Sockets for dual AMD Athlon64 X2 CPU's
01.06.06 at 15:37:28
 
While I was reading the Dutch hardware site I came accros this interesting article:
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2006/06/amd_puts_pressu.html#more

AMD Is gonna build a socket for 2 Athlon64 X2 CPU's but should I see that as one entire socket for 2 Dual Core prox or 2 sepperate sockets for each one dual core CPU?

Anyways I don't see the point in this since QuadCore will be arriving soon and I dunno if it's better to have 2 sepperate Dual Core procs or just one Quad Core Proc qua Economics?

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Re: New  Sockets for dual AMD Athlon64 X2 CPU
Reply #1 - 01.06.06 at 20:15:41
 
If you want such a PC you have to buy a special mainboard with two Socket 939.

Until now every Socket 939-CPU had only one non-coherent Hypertransport-channel so they couldn't be connected together without special hardware. In Opteron 2xx- and 8xx-series you have three Hypertransport-channels which are partially coherent (Opteron 2xx: one coheren HT-channel, Opteron 8xx: all three channels are coherent).
Since the cores of the Athlon 64 and the Opteron are basically almost the same but partially deactivated (HT-channels for instance) at the Athlon 64, AMD can activate a coherent HT-channel at the Athlon 64, too.

Basically it's the technology of the Opteron which enters "normal" desktop-PCs.

Here is a german newsticker which has a drawing of the principle of the 4x4-socket.
In the [Update:]-section is written that - different from earlier speculations - the 4x4-technology is able to split the controlling of the memory to both CPUs so the CPUs don't have to share memory like all Intel-CPUs.
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Re: New  Sockets for dual AMD Athlon64 X2 CPU
Reply #2 - 10.07.06 at 19:24:57
 
wauw that's brilliant Smiley can't wait to see Athlon64 X4 cpu's then hay Grin hehe
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Re: New  Sockets for dual AMD Athlon64 X2 CPU's
Reply #3 - 11.07.06 at 03:04:40
 
If anyone has an Airbus full of cash, please deliver to my address so I can buy one of these mainboards! Roll Eyes

LOL! Grin
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Re: New  Sockets for dual AMD Athlon64 X2 CPU
Reply #4 - 11.07.06 at 13:25:39
 
hahaha the A380 , hmm why not an Antonov AN225 of Gold wiieeee Grin hahaha

anyways yeah Quad CPU is possible on the Tyan Tiger K8W Smiley  2x dual core Opteron then Quad Core is worth do'n okay there are real 4 way board but to beable to obtain one of those may not be the problem it's the CPU's needed the Opteron 8.xx series arrgghh Lips Sealed by buy'n 4 of those then the fun dissapears rapidly.
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