AMD Puts Pressure On Intel In PC Gaming With New Socket For Two Dual-Core Processors
 

Advanced Micro Devices is going to fire back at Intel today in the enthusiast PC market. The Sunnyvale company will unveil a new socket for high-end computers today that will allow it to put two dual-core microprocessors side by side in a PC. The new 4x4 socket will help it compete for the speed crown with Intel, which is poised to launch its new Conroe desktop microprocessors in July.

this will be interesting; Quad Core PC; without games or applications that take 100% advantage of even 2 CPU's... interesting strategy; what their whole reverse-HT all about then?

does it have any practical sense/benefit from majority of users? Or, simply to fire back at Intel, an "Ego trip".

I could imagine it for the PRO segment but currently I thought there already were 4 way systems.


new sockets = angry consumers

bad move either way; putting more CPUs in a PC doesn't make single threaded applications run faster, 99% of games are single threaded. end result: 1xFX-62 = 2xFX-62 << Conroe.

it should make quite the difference though when programmers start using the new technologies

but that's not for tomorrow, and their "fix" is to try and hold the enthusiast market in their grip and hope it will best Conroe...

the only thing I could imagine is that they want to do something like SLI, which is a success from a business standpoint as you can now sell 2 500$ cards to the rich people, so why not sell 2 1000$ CPUs?

well of course it is, but i am just saying that it might pay of in the future

Prgrammers of mainstream applications haven't used dualcores yet so it's doubtfull it would pay off anytime soon