Athlon AMD X2s: More 4800+ power displays

HARDWARE CENTRAL reflects on AMD's Dual Core strategy and points out as an irony to the fact that AMD's lack of Hyper Treading might actually be a major advantage for them. Vince Freeman rightly says that AMD has positioned its dual core processors where it will do the most good, i.e. at the top end.

AMD will be having a series of online presentation called AMD in the Enterprise starting today. Just register here and you will get a Virtual Event bag and the new AMD Dual Core screamsaver. Featured presenters include Hector Ruiz, President and CEO, Ben William VP AMD servers and Workstation and Ed Leonard CTO of Dreamworks.

Techreport has added its pinch of salt to the whole X2 story with this article. The dual core desktop line from AMD promises to add dual powers to any socket 939 rig. TR declares that the 4800+ is the fastest single processor on the planet but the 4200+ represents the sweetspot. Read the article for more.

HardOCP previews the latest AMD CPU here. The comparison bench includes PEE840 and an A64 4000+. AMD is again leading the world in terms of Computing performance. As people start discovering real world multi-tasking, the performance increase can only get better. "Silicon homerun with the bases loaded." as Kyle puts it.

The Killer app for selling more gear has just arrived. It is called running applications simultaneously. SimHQ has its review of the 4800+ here. They take the best components available, take a deep breath and checks some PC Gaming simulations. No business suites here. Expect SMP optimised games like the Falcon 4 to appear in mass in 2006.

AMD could have renamed their X2 4800+ to 5500+ and no one would have said anything in view of its actual real world performance. Techware Labs shows us why.However you have to disagree with them when they state that you won't realize the potential of the X2 unless supporting an application with dual processor.

Xbitlabs has their version of the X2 4800+ drama which spawns over two dozen of pages. Nothing new to be mentioned here and no mention of overclocking as well. FYI, they are starting a series of test sessions of dual core processors in their labs. To be continued.

Small correction from DoomedPC. "Just a note on what you wrote in the roundup the other day. As cool as it would be if we could pull 6012 in 3D05 on an Athlon XP 2000+ rig, we didn't. Test rig used was a Winchester 3000+ @ 2.55GHz, as per the rig specs given here: http://www.doomedpc.com/drupal-4.5.2//?q=node/29 I can see where you got the XP bit from, "a AMD XP2000+, with 512mb generic RAM, and an X850XT"; sorry if that was missleading. It was a hypothetical example and not the specs of the rig used." µ