AMD and 45nm - here at last.

[S. Starbuck]

"AMD has been stuck on the 65nm boat for a while now, and its current chips are now looking pretty crusty when you consider that Intel’s 45nm Xeon CPUs were doing the rounds at the end of last year. However, the wait for AMD’s next-gen CPUs is finally over. The company has now officially launched its first 45nm ‘Shanghai’ Opteron chips for servers and workstations, which may well give us a glimpse of what we can expect from its forthcoming desktop CPUs, codenamed 'Deneb'."

http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/605178/amd-launches-first-45nm-cpus.html

And the press release:

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~129135,00.html

Also, from the same site:

"After cycling through various Athlon monikers, not to mention the Phenom brand, AMD has now announced that it’s going back to the age-old sequel-naming tradition with its 45nm quad-core Phenom ‘Deneb’ chips, which will be called Phenom II X4."

http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/605184/amd-phenom-ii-unveiled.html

[mitchellds]

well I've been running a 8 core (dual quad) barcey system on a tyan mb for the last year with IX. It's been very reliable, just not very fast in comparison to my intel quads. I can tell you that without a doubt, my nicely Oc'd 9300 intel outruns this 8 core system. If they really want to make a splash, the slow CPU speeds very little OC room are not going to make it. They need this processor able to run in the 3.2x neighborhood either natively, or in their black edition so it can be OC'd. I'm speaking from my perspective of course, not from running this new processor in a server environment, which who knows, maybe they'll make a killing. By the way, I do also run a heavy server environment at work, and guess what, we dont run any AMD CPU's on the server side. :icon_rolleyes:

[Brucifer]

Well I wish them the best.... however I'll have to see it to believe it. I have only one 9850BE, but multiple Q6600's. Why? Because of price and performance. I look at that q6600 as the basic chip to beat. They will have a hard time. Granted, the 9850BE is cheaper than a q6600. But the q6600 doesn't need a "special" motherboard, and didn't require "new" memory sticks. So the actual cost of a running system is less for the q6600. And with no overclocking, there is only one project I've come across that the 9850BE will keep up and even pass a teensy weensy bit, and that is D2OL. The other stuff I've run, the q6600's are faster. Then throw in a bit of over-clocking and the q6600 just walks away. How long has the q6600 been out now???? And they still sell them quite briskly. That has really got to be a bread and butter chip for Intel. Prior to the q6600 I was a died in the wool AMD fanatic. I would like to be again. But until amd puts something on the street that will beat the q6600 in price (as in a complete ready to run motherboard) and performance, they will not be getting any more of my money. And it pains me to say that, but unfortunately I have to live on a budget, uhmmmmm sorta like commercial IT departments.... :icon_rolleyes:

[Jason1478963]

I shall not be tempted by the dark side... GO AMD :)