Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 10:23:36 05/11/01
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On May 11, 2001 at 12:54:11, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >Jorge, > >What is the power consumption of this system? Can we get this system to run on >2 to 3 watts? It sounds like a Rolls-Royce type of machine. You don't need it >but you want it. When you have it, you feel like you can't live without it. > > >Tim Frohlick >Athlon dual mobos: 1.8GHz a gogo Exclusive: It's Guinnesses all round By Mike Magee, 10 May 2001 16.50 BST SOURCES CLOSE TO AMD in Taiwan have given us sight of many of the features of the Athlon 760MP (multiprocessing) chipset. And very interesting reading it makes for too. The Tyan Thunder K7 mobo, which supports dual Athlon H-series microprocessors, offering up to 2.1GB/s per CPU, supports four PC2100 registered DIMMs, ECC scrubbing, 4X AGP Pro, on board SCSI, two network interface cards and on board graphics. One of its nicest features is its codename - Guinness. The Thunder K7 Guinness mobo (cheers) includes a dual independent bus per CPU and a separate path for so-called snoop traffic. The Athlon H-Series includes SSE+, which may or may not be called 3DNow! Pro, and extensions to the instruction set include Intel Screaming Sindie 1 and 2 single and double precision floating point instructions. AMD will continue to support 3DNow, even in Hammer, when it arrives. Developers will be able to choose between AMD and Intel 3D instruction in either Screaming Sindies or 3DNow, but the H Series of Athlons can run with fully optimised code. Preliminary benchmarketing seen by The Inquirer show an 80 per cent boost in Photoshop 5.5 and 6.0 lighting effects, and the 3D StudioMax Heidi Renderer is something like 34 per cent up. The inclusive L2 cache on the H series gives a much bigger boost to the processor, according to the source, and other features, including hardware pre-fetching, mean routine speed boosts in many apps. The architecture of the chipset means that the thing is also software prefetch instruction aware. The power supply is actually 460 Watts, not 450 Watts as we previously reported, and couple of suppliers are likely to be ready at launch date. The document we saw mentions Palominos running at 1.8GHz but 1200MHz and 1400MHz Palominos are also in the frame. Heatsinks suitable for the 1200MHz Palominos will probably be fine with the higher frequencies. Firms able to supply the DDR memory will include Hynix, Micron, Tosh and Samsung, and smaller companies such as Dataram. There is hope on the horizon for a power supply that runs at 350 watts by year end. The on board video is likely to be ATI Rage XL. We'll have more on these major developments later. ยต InqBlot 666 According to Guinness.com, the water used to clean Pentiums in Ireland and that then ends up in a pint of Guinness does not add anything to the taste of the beer. According to Intel officials, it tastes better. See > > >On May 11, 2001 at 08:30:02, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>Athlon Dual Mobos: 1.8GHz A Gogo ! - Lars - 11-05-2001 - 2001-05-10 13:15:50 >> top >>Mike Magee over at The Inquirer has posted a scoop story.....which will make >>your mouth water.....and i'm not refering to the Guinness Beer he keeps >>mentioning (would love a pint right now m8 !)....i'm talking about Dual >>Palomino's.......running at 1.8GHz each !!!! :) >> >> >>The Athlon H-Series includes SSE+, which may or may not be called 3DNow! Pro, >>and extensions to the instruction set include Intel Screaming Sindie 1 and 2 >>single and double precision floating point instructions. AMD will continue to >>support 3DNow, even in Hammer, when it arrives. >> >>Developers will be able to choose between AMD and Intel 3D instruction in either >>Screaming Sindies or 3DNow, but the H Series of Athlons can run with fully >>optimised code. >> >>Preliminary benchmarketing seen by The Inquirer show an 80 per cent boost in >>Photoshop 5.5 and 6.0 lighting effects, and the 3D StudioMax Heidi Renderer is >>something like 34 per cent up. >> >>This AMD Athlon Palomino just keeps getting better and better...it's already >>rumoured to have an enhanced Branch Prediction Unit (BPU) and hardware >>prefetch......now the Athlon H-Series mentioned here.....seems to be >>server-version of the Palomino.....and with BOTH 3DNow! and SSE......AMD may >>finally have a real Intel-killer !! :) >> >>UPDATE: As you may have seen elsewhere.....a company called RackSaver Inc....is >>already taking (pre-)orders for a Dual Palomino server.....based on Tyan's K7 >>Thunder S2462 motherboard.....and Dual 1.2GHz Palomino's....the price is around >>
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