AMD has been in the news quite a bit lately, especially since Barcelona will be hitting soon.
Dell Revealed Barcelona Performance - VR-Zone
AMD Introduces Gaming Site - ExtremeTech
AMD Pins Hopes on Barcelona Quad-Core Chip - Wired News
AMD Unveils “Barcelona” Architecture - DailyTech
Quad-Core Barcelona Is Only A Start For AMD - Information Week
AMD News Roundup
AMD No Comments »AMD Prices Barcelona Chips
AMD, Processors No Comments »AMD’s Barcelona chips should be showing up on Sep. 10th. These new Quad-Core chips should be quite a bit faster then the previous Opteron chips.
The pricing is as follows:
2350, 2.0 GHz, 95W, $372
2347, 1.9GHz, 95W, $312
2347 HE, 1.9GHz, 68W, $372
2346 HE, 1.8GHz, 68W, $251
2344 HE, 1.7GHz, 68W, $206
8350, 2.0GHz, 95W, $1004
8347, 1.9GHz, 95W, $774
8347 HE, [...]
Barcelona Reaches 30,000+ in 3DMark06
AMD, Processors, Quad-Core No Comments »theInquirer was able to have some time with a Barcelona chip recently. It was paired with 4GB of memory and two Radeon HD 2900XT. The chip ran at 2.5GHz stock and they overclocked it to 3GHz. The two Radeon cards were overclocked to 830MHz for the core and 900MHz for the memory.
When they ran 3DMark06 [...]
AMD Phenom Logo
AMD, Processors No Comments »Back in June I showed you all a picture of the Phenom Logo, well it was quite small and was a sticker on the side of a Indy car. But this time I have the actual logo. What will be slapped on every box that has a Phenom processor on it. Get used to it [...]
AMD Barcelona Sales Video Shows Up On YouTube
AMD, Processors, Quad-Core, Video No Comments »AMD Barcelona will be launching on September 10th and a video has shown up on YouTube that appears to be a sales video. The video shows how easy it is to upgrade to the new chip, the video says it only takes 8 minutes.
AMD Announces Athlon 64 X2 6400+
AMD, Processors No Comments »AMD has announced the Athlon 64 X2 6400+ “Black Edition.” This is expected to be the last 90nm dual-core processors. The processor clocks in at 3.2GHz with 2MB of L2 cache and a thermal design power of 125Watts in the Socket AM2.
The “Black Edition” part of its name isn’t exactly easily explainable especially since I [...]
Barcelona Launching September 10
AMD, Processors, Quad-Core 2 Comments »AMD’s much anticipated Barelona Quad-Core processors will finally be launching on September 10th. AMD has achieved yields as high as they have with their dual-core processors so they expect to have good availability only a few days after the launch party.
The first processors based on Barcelona will be available at 2.0GHz but faster chips will [...]
AMD Starts Website Against Intel
AMD, Intel, Processors No Comments »“AMD Break Free” is a new site that AMD just opened. When you go to this site you get a splash screen that says “European Commission Reveals the Truth About Intel.” This seems to be a campaign against Intel regarding a “monopoly.”Now I don’t know enough about the hard numbers to say whether or not [...]
