AMD's Barcelona quads are here at NCIX

[belgolas]

AMD's quad cores are here. http://www.ncix.com/new/

1.8 ghz $300 ouch.

[sswilson]

Socket F.... :(

[b1lk1]

Barcelona is not meant for Desktop.

[belgolas]

I know just making a statement

[b1lk1]

Be careful when comparing clock speeds because from everything I read so far, Barcelona cores are faster clock for clock. The only real issue now is if they can get the clock speeds high enough to overcome Kentsfield.

[Gamashinoch]

Originally Posted by b1lk1

Barcelona is not meant for Desktop.

coming from a guy with a quad intel? xeon no less.

[b1lk1]

My Xeon is S775 and is made to run on most any S775 desktop board that supports C2D. The Barcelona is a Socekt F CPU that pretty much requires a workstation type board plus I also believe it requires ECC memory (I am not sure of this). I think it is possible to run them on the dual socket F enthusiast boards, but that is another thing I am not even remotely sure of. Either way, Phenon is the S940 version of Barcelona and it will be here soon enough to show us that AMD is far from dead and can still go toe to toe with Intel.

[magictorch]

first wave here already. Hopefully the AM2+ sockets are not far behind. I think i remember a review showing a 2ghz chip giving a Qextreme edition a bit of a hiding. Plus they seem to really get those 2900XT's fired up to some crazy 3marks.

[Amon]

Socket 1207 does not *require* registered memory. The dual-socket 1207 L1N64 that's been out for more than a year uses standard DDR2 DIMMs. Also, it can be run with only one socket populated with a processor. The new Barcelona should be retroactive with the existing 1207 boards.

[CMetaphor]

Um Um Um..... wow.... am i the only one that just thought of this?... that Socket F Asus board has 2 sockets.... so 2x quad core optys = possible 8 cores? Shazzam!!! Sweet ba-jebus!!! I think i know my next upgrade