barcelona
barcelona
what socket will these new processors actually use socket F or AM2? also are there any crossfire motherboards that would support barcelona and the new 2900xtx
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Barcelona is the codename for the new Opterons they will be socket F
Agena is the new desktop part replacing the now retired Athlon K8 Series. It will be called Phenom rather then Athlon and will be socket AM2+. It will be backwards compatible with existing socket AM2 mobos but socket AM2+ mobos will feature HT3 which will increase performance. Agena and Barcelona will be native Quad Core but dual and single core variants will be released with disabled cores. Socket AM3 wont be out till next year and will have DDR3 support.
Also Agena FX will be Socket F and will be a dual processor solution like todays quadfather. So 8 cores total.
Also today it was reported that K10's B0 stepping turned out WAY better then expected. These parts are going to rock!
Agena is the new desktop part replacing the now retired Athlon K8 Series. It will be called Phenom rather then Athlon and will be socket AM2+. It will be backwards compatible with existing socket AM2 mobos but socket AM2+ mobos will feature HT3 which will increase performance. Agena and Barcelona will be native Quad Core but dual and single core variants will be released with disabled cores. Socket AM3 wont be out till next year and will have DDR3 support.
Also Agena FX will be Socket F and will be a dual processor solution like todays quadfather. So 8 cores total.
Also today it was reported that K10's B0 stepping turned out WAY better then expected. These parts are going to rock!
If that's true they're gonna make a good amount of happy consumers... including meHONkUS wrote:It will be backwards compatible with existing socket AM2 mobos
Is it me or it doesn't really make sense to do that? Assuming they make 10 "different" processors which cost, let's say, 300$. They're all the same, but via some hard/software modifications, the price will be somewhere between 1000$ or 100$. Maybe it's only so they have to build a new 65nm fab?HONkUS wrote:Agena and Barcelona will be native Quad Core but dual and single core variants will be released with disabled cores.
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Its easy. If one of the cores is bad they disable two of them and voila its a Phenom x2. If 3 cores are bad they disable them and its a Sempron/Phenom. Their final yields will determine how much of what we see.
IBM did the same thing with the Cell processor, all the ones that didnt produce enough viable cores were sold to auto manufacturers and medical supply companies. It happens alot.
IBM did the same thing with the Cell processor, all the ones that didnt produce enough viable cores were sold to auto manufacturers and medical supply companies. It happens alot.
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I don't know about r600 but it would definatley be K10 compatible with a BIOS flash. And really I see no reason why it wouldn't support r600 crossfire. But if you can afford r600 crossfire then it would make more sense to get one of the new AM2+ mobo's with HT3. Running on an existing AM2 mobo would limit the performance of an Agena proc. I mean it will still beat C2D just not by as much!
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