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About LinkBacksRead more.After what seems like an eternity holding out on a concrete Barcelona announcement, AMD has finally unveiled the new chips. But we won't see a 2.5GHz version of the chip until Q4.
Read more.After what seems like an eternity holding out on a concrete Barcelona announcement, AMD has finally unveiled the new chips. But we won't see a 2.5GHz version of the chip until Q4.
The excellent article you link to regarding sampling strategy made the following vow: "Next week expect more from HEXUS on AMD ‘Barcelona’ and how its own customers are confused and frustrated over AMD’s extremely restricted media product sampling ‘strategy’ of this new product..."
Has that appeared yet? I would love to know more about it.
Has Hexus been able to make any meaningful assessment of Barcelona yet?
Didn't Intel launch its equivalent product last week? Any thoughts on that?
Intel has just rolled out its Core2 Xeons for 4-way MP servers, yes. http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=9809
As for HEXUS and Barcelona... in due course
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Barcelona? The chip to beat Core2duo? Not only they are late, but i'm guessing that Intel are already into getting Quads to the mass market?
The press will need to be very careful now how they report power specs for AMD chips. The 105 Watt is not TDP, it is ACP (average CPU power). It is a new spec invented by AMD to make the number on the package look better. Not that it is bad, but it does not mean the same thing.
http://www.hothardware.com/articles/...adCore/?page=2
http://www.hothardware.com/image_pop...cleid=1024&t=a
So technically, their power spec has not changed. They are calling a 120 Watt TDP a 105 Watt ACP.
It will throw some real confusion into the market if people do not understand the difference.
Well spotted jumping jack.
I noticed this a couple of hours after publishing the story, when I got hold of information that clarified things further, but didn't get to updating the article. I'll do so now.
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You are welcome.... I understand why the metric is there, if you are looking at it from a 'electric bill' perspective, then ACP is the number you want. if you are looking at it from 'how can I safely cool my CPU' then it is TDP that you want.Originally Posted by Steve
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