DAPUNISHER
09-10-2003, 10:31 AM
After seeing the Opteron 246 in action, we have more faith in the Hammer architecture than ever. With the lifespan of this chip just starting, and Intel's current Northwood designs all but drained from further speed boosts, it looks like AMD has free reign of the high-end market until Intel's Prescott architecture comes along. No doubt Intel will push clock speeds to a maximum with their new chip, but this time it may not matter as much. AMD has such features like their on-die memory controller and X86-64 processing abilities, both of which Intel won't be matching anytime soon. They should have shown the advantage HT offers to counter-point the following assertion however "has such features like their on-die memory controller and X86-64 processing abilities, both of which Intel won't be matching anytime soon" I realize they are excited to see AMD with a strong showing but shouldn't sell the P4C short in the process ;)
The features of the new X86-64 line of AMD processors that impress me most are the strong IPC, effective use of bandwidth, and the silent cooling capability with just the stock cooler@2ghz
this temperature is still lower than Intel's Pentium 4 3.2 GHz running at full blast with the Intel stock cooler. We were also able to run the AMD stock cooler at silent RPM levels using the Asus Q-Fan technology on the SK8N Opteron motherboard. AMD's stock cooler is actually very quiet at standard RPM speeds, and with thermal speed control, can be brought down to very low levels and still keep the Opteron 246 CPU quite happy.
Prescott's single negative thus far appears to be the need for serious cooling if what I've read is accurate. That leads me to speculate that perhaps AMD is demonstrating exceptional wisdom by extracting the evident performance in many areas while effectively combating the heat issues that both Intel and they themselves have been facing recently.
At any rate :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: to AMD for creating a ray of hope in what otherwise appeared to be the bleak landscape of their micrprocessor division's future.
The features of the new X86-64 line of AMD processors that impress me most are the strong IPC, effective use of bandwidth, and the silent cooling capability with just the stock cooler@2ghz
this temperature is still lower than Intel's Pentium 4 3.2 GHz running at full blast with the Intel stock cooler. We were also able to run the AMD stock cooler at silent RPM levels using the Asus Q-Fan technology on the SK8N Opteron motherboard. AMD's stock cooler is actually very quiet at standard RPM speeds, and with thermal speed control, can be brought down to very low levels and still keep the Opteron 246 CPU quite happy.
Prescott's single negative thus far appears to be the need for serious cooling if what I've read is accurate. That leads me to speculate that perhaps AMD is demonstrating exceptional wisdom by extracting the evident performance in many areas while effectively combating the heat issues that both Intel and they themselves have been facing recently.
At any rate :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: to AMD for creating a ray of hope in what otherwise appeared to be the bleak landscape of their micrprocessor division's future.