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AMD Quad Father

Okay, the cpu industry goes fast at the moment. Just as I laid my hands on my first Intel Core Duo processor, AMD is gonna bring out a Quad processor configuration.

This is pretty awesome stuff:

” During our session, AMD was quick to point out the inherent benefits of their “Direct Connect” architecture, which is brought to the system via serial HyperTransport links.

In the architecture Memory, CPUs and certain IO subsystems are all directly connected to each other via HT and it affords AMD a huge advantage in scalability. So much so that they’re already speaking of octal core implementations. In addition, it’s our early estimation that this is the single most important advantage that a quad-core AMD architecture has over Intel’s Kentsfield CPU that is soon to be launched.

(…) The board has no less that 48 lanes of PCI Express connectivity brought out to its four full-length X16 PCIe slots. This will provide a ton of room for expansion for not only graphics but other technologies like PCI Express RAID cards for example. Also note the 12 X 3G SATA ports — holy RAID Batman.

(…) Specifically the machines had two instances of City of Heroes running, two HD video streams playing, including a Battlefield 2142 trailer, and a video conversion going on, all at the same time. In this case all four cores are pegged at 100% utilization but in fact there is plenty of horsepower left to navigate around Windows XP and launch other applications. AMD is citing that more than 20 mutli-threaded game titles are targeted for release in 2007. We’d offer that is even perhaps a bit conservative, as without question the world has now officially gone multi-core, whether you consider the developer or end user community.”

So. That’s a shitload of horsepower. Do I need it? Sometimes, but surely not all the time. Right now all what i’m doing is typing this blog entry. I could do some video conversion in the background, but I’m probably done coverting that few video’s pretty soon.

(slashdot link)