First Ever Dual Socket Multi-Core Desktop PC Platform (release date, price and availability included)
November 30th 2006 11:45
What surprises me most about AMD announcing the first ever Dual Socket multi-core desktop PC platform is not the fact they did it before Intel (about time AMD did something before Intel) but the fact NVIDIA claims to be ‘pleased’ by such developments indicating its relationship with AMD has not been damaged in light of the AMD/ATI merger.
“NVIDIA is pleased to be the launch partner for the launch of the new AMD Quad FX multi-GPU Platforms," said Drew Henry of NVIDIA continuing to say the Geforce 8 series will be ideal when partnered with AMD’s new platform for the ‘mega tasker’.
AMD has two other key partners with its new platform, Voodoo PC and Alienware both of which specialize in selling pre-assembled enthusiast level PC’s.
The new platform called ‘Quad FX’ provides excellent performance scalability particularly with AMD’s Athlon 64 FX processors. Quad FX is specifically designed to enhance the ‘mega taskers’ experience with ‘Windows Vista Ultimate’, so in essence Quad FX is the first generation enthusiast level platform for Vista.
Dual Socket Direct Connect Architecture (DSDCA) is the heart of the Quad FX platform. It gives matched processors high bandwidth communication between each other, these processors are dual core AMD Athlon 64 FX-70, AMD Athlon 64 FX-72, and AMD Athlon 64 FX-74.
Price and Availability
While powerful the new platform may be, it has a price tag to match (as always) the pricing for pairs of the new AMD Athlon 64 FX-70, FX-72 and FX-74 dual-core processors is $599, $799 and $999 (US) respectively.
They are first set to be put on the market on November 30th on NewEgg and it is set to be available worldwide early 2007. The new platform is expected to be available from all major system builders.
“NVIDIA is pleased to be the launch partner for the launch of the new AMD Quad FX multi-GPU Platforms," said Drew Henry of NVIDIA continuing to say the Geforce 8 series will be ideal when partnered with AMD’s new platform for the ‘mega tasker’.
AMD has two other key partners with its new platform, Voodoo PC and Alienware both of which specialize in selling pre-assembled enthusiast level PC’s.
The new platform called ‘Quad FX’ provides excellent performance scalability particularly with AMD’s Athlon 64 FX processors. Quad FX is specifically designed to enhance the ‘mega taskers’ experience with ‘Windows Vista Ultimate’, so in essence Quad FX is the first generation enthusiast level platform for Vista.
Dual Socket Direct Connect Architecture (DSDCA) is the heart of the Quad FX platform. It gives matched processors high bandwidth communication between each other, these processors are dual core AMD Athlon 64 FX-70, AMD Athlon 64 FX-72, and AMD Athlon 64 FX-74.
Price and Availability
While powerful the new platform may be, it has a price tag to match (as always) the pricing for pairs of the new AMD Athlon 64 FX-70, FX-72 and FX-74 dual-core processors is $599, $799 and $999 (US) respectively.
They are first set to be put on the market on November 30th on NewEgg and it is set to be available worldwide early 2007. The new platform is expected to be available from all major system builders.
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If you read my blog you would have little idea how it works though i havent gone much deep as I did a 3 post analysis of Intel Quad which you can see here
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