Anyone seen this yet?

Nightrain said:
The triple core processor isn't a true tri-core. It is a quad core with one core "disabled". They haven't said why yet as far as I know, but I suspect they are using quadcores with one bad core and marketing them as tri-cores. Amd cant afford to just throw away processors that didn't quite make the cut, so they disable the bad core and name it a tri-core and sell it for a bit cheaper.

Kind of like intels old celeron d's that essentially were p4's whose cache didn't make the cut. Dont throw it away when you can just market it as something lower end and make more profit that way.

Thats the way I look at it. Because if the fourth core worked, it would be a waste of money to just put it on there, which they stated it was intact. Me thinks that last core doesn't work so they market it as a lower product.


Just my theory.
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Interesting, but incorrect. If you read the link a few posts above you'd see that the tri-processors are true tri-cores on one die, as stated in the first paragraph...

http://www.megagames.com/news/html/hardware/amdrevealstriple-corephenom.shtml said:
AMD Phenom triple-core processors, expected to be the world's first PC processors to integrate three computational cores on a single die of silicon, can help deliver the visual experience, performance and multitasking capabilities of true multi-core technology to a broader audience.
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This will make it very easy for AMD to take two of the dies and put it on one chip, to make a 6 core CPU, much like Intel has done with the Q6600 (basically two E6600's).
 
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That makes better sense. It has to resign itself to the lower-end, but cheaper section of the market it's been in many times, most notably, in it's conception many years ago. But to be fair, many of the ideas AMD came up with Intel is now using. "Brainiac" CPU's opposed to "speed-demons", the restructuring of core architecture of IPC rate before clock speed, On-die memory controllers. They both owe each other quite abit, and I think they make the best sorta couple. :D
 
INTELCRAZY said:
Penryn is mobile, the next Merom....

I wanna see Wolfdale with it's 6Mb cache... And Yorkfield quads with 12Mb Cache..

Wolfdales might even beat the Conroe in OC'ing...

I can't wait for the new architecture to be revealed in Nehalem!!
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http://www.news.com/Intel-shows-off-Penryn-chips/2100-1006_3-6153973.html

"Penryn is the code name for a family of desktop, notebook and server chips based on Intel's Core microarchitecture, and systems with the chips will be available before the end of this year, said CEO Paul Otellini at the event."
 
computermaineack said:
Interesting, but incorrect. If you read the link a few posts above you'd see that the tri-processors are true tri-cores on one die, as stated in the first paragraph...
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I wouldn't go so far as to state my theory is completely incorrect, its not like the megagames link is any more reliable than the other hundreds flying around the internet that all say slightly different things.

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AMD announced the addition of AMD Phenom triple-core processors to its desktop roadmap.

AMD Phenom triple-core processors, expected to be the world's first PC processors to integrate three computational cores on a single die of silicon, can help deliver the visual experience, performance and multitasking capabilities of true multi-core technology to a broader audience.

And to add to that they only say to integrate three computational cores, they don't credit or discredit whether or not there is actually a fourth core intact but disabled.

Like I said, we will just have to wait and see.
 
There marketing wasn't even that great

"ohh we have a suprise for you" its a slower model cpu that is unlocked to get 12 more mhz out of it
 
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