AMD goes ga-ga with dual core Athlon 64

Sidney · 23rd February 2005, 14:34

CHIP FIRM AMD showed off a dual core Athlon 64 chip at its Sunnyvale plant yesterday, as the noise caused by the battle between the two firms, sometimes compared to Tweedledee and Tweedledum, becomes a blinking cacophony and racket.
Intel encouraged its staff at a sales conference last week to go "ga ga" for Smithfield, its desktop bi-cameral microprocessor which it is expected to show off at a Developer Conference in California next week.

CPUs are sometimes described as the "brains" of a computer, so obviously it's better to have two brains than one, although some think too many cooks spoil the broth.

Now AMD has decided to "ra ra" its own dual processor technology, in the shape of its 939 pin "Toledo" processor. AMD traditionally attempts to woo hacks attending IDF to see what it's up to. Last year, a limo it hired to take the journos to an alternative venue was shooed away by armed cops and Intel executives.

AMD said that its dual core Athlon 64s will have similar power characteristics to its single core chips. It also claims that the chips are manufactured using the same process and don't need new types of motherboards.

It claims that the dual core processors will let people burn CDs or DVDs while unzipping compressed files and encoding high resolution videos. µ

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21387

jmke · 23rd February 2005, 16:50

"dual core processors will let people burn CDs or DVDs while unzipping compressed files and encoding high resolution videos"

uhm, all those actions require massive DISK access (DVD 4x 5600kb/s) (Unzip: as fast as CPU can process data: 10-30+mb/s) (encoding: 40-60+mb/s)

having a dual CPU system will not speed those things up in my humble opinion

Sidney · 23rd February 2005, 17:39

Dual DVD burners; Dual everything ........
Why not two systems?

I operate one and my G/F operates the second .... or we play games together.

No need for dual core, since I can't double the pleasure.

23rd February 2005, 14:34	#1
Sidney Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 15,738	AMD goes ga-ga with dual core Athlon 64 CHIP FIRM AMD showed off a dual core Athlon 64 chip at its Sunnyvale plant yesterday, as the noise caused by the battle between the two firms, sometimes compared to Tweedledee and Tweedledum, becomes a blinking cacophony and racket. Intel encouraged its staff at a sales conference last week to go "ga ga" for Smithfield, its desktop bi-cameral microprocessor which it is expected to show off at a Developer Conference in California next week. CPUs are sometimes described as the "brains" of a computer, so obviously it's better to have two brains than one, although some think too many cooks spoil the broth. Now AMD has decided to "ra ra" its own dual processor technology, in the shape of its 939 pin "Toledo" processor. AMD traditionally attempts to woo hacks attending IDF to see what it's up to. Last year, a limo it hired to take the journos to an alternative venue was shooed away by armed cops and Intel executives. AMD said that its dual core Athlon 64s will have similar power characteristics to its single core chips. It also claims that the chips are manufactured using the same process and don't need new types of motherboards. It claims that the dual core processors will let people burn CDs or DVDs while unzipping compressed files and encoding high resolution videos. µ http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21387 __________________ lazyman Opteron 165 (2) @2.85 1.42 vcore AMD Stock HSF + Chill Vent II

23rd February 2005, 16:50	#2
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,013	"dual core processors will let people burn CDs or DVDs while unzipping compressed files and encoding high resolution videos" uhm, all those actions require massive DISK access (DVD 4x 5600kb/s) (Unzip: as fast as CPU can process data: 10-30+mb/s) (encoding: 40-60+mb/s) having a dual CPU system will not speed those things up in my humble opinion __________________

23rd February 2005, 17:39	#3
Sidney Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 15,738	Dual DVD burners; Dual everything ........ Why not two systems? I operate one and my G/F operates the second .... or we play games together. No need for dual core, since I can't double the pleasure. __________________ lazyman Opteron 165 (2) @2.85 1.42 vcore AMD Stock HSF + Chill Vent II

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