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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected - Swedish proverb
Kuma cometh
THE PROCESSOR name that AMD couldn't make up its mind about has broken free of its shackles and posted to many a site on the wibble. The Phenom-born processor sports the Athlon brand name and carries but two active cores - operating at 2.7GHz and 2.5GHz. They perform well enough, but the 95W TDP is enough to put most users off. If you're just looking at shelf price, it's more than worth it.
We've assembled a host of reviews that highlight the processors advantages and shortcomings. You'd be surprised... Kumandgeddit:
Fudo's gang is looking at the 8.12 Catalysts and are very happy about it. Not only that, but the fact that you get a free video encoding app, AVIVO (as opposed to the green goblin's bundled Badaboom). Framerates go up, which is always a good thing. Read it here.
OCaholic is testing the OCZ Core V2 60GB. No standard benchmark tests going on there, it's all Linuxy and it seems OCaholic has found its Achilles' heel: random writes... very slow random writes. Give it a look.
VR-Zone is testing ECS' Hydra combo kit. We've mentioned it here before - it includes two 9800GTX+ in SLI with liquid cooling waterblocks and pump. Everything seems to perform great, except your finances after dropping a small fortune on this.
The teeny-tinies VGAs get to battle it out at Hillbilly Hardware, with the S3 Chrome 530GT, the HD 4350 and the Geforce 9400GT. The 530GT does unexpectedly well, but the real star is the HD 4350 that keeps quiet, plays well and has plenty of HTPC-alike features... cheap GPUs, here.
Driverheaven at the high-end professional series LED backlit LCD, the XL30, from Samsung. This £2,500 30-inch screen is a bit of overkill if you're not into professional graphics - and forget about gaming on it, it wasn't built for that. 100 per cent pro, to go with your brand new Quadro CX, we guess... read about the hardware, here. µ
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So I guess this is a non native dual core? (as it is a disabled quad and was not designed to be a dual?)
Semantics... kind of funny, eh? Intel should put out a "Dual core for dummies: revised, profit making edition" and send it to AMD.
The power #'s are not good, even AMDzone couldn't OC these very well and while they have some performance benefit over K8, it is offset by the power increase (performance/watt is no different). Why bother with "native" 45nm dual cores coming in 6 months? This looks like AMD dumping inventory or continued 65nm process/yield issues