PICS: 2900XT and Barcelona Up and Running

[GTaudiophile]

I guess Anand and Kyle were sharing their gadgets.

Pics @ Hardocp.com

These pictures were taken only a few minutes ago. AMD showed off their Barcelona quad-core processors in action today in Monterrey, California. What you see in the pictures below are single processor and dual processor configurations, so a true "4x4" is now realized by AMD that looks very comfortable on an enthusiast desktop. And yes, those are Radeon X2900 XT video cards in the systems. Ian McNaughton showed off both systems encoding a 1080P trailer of Spiderman 3 to an H.264 format. On the dual quad-core Barcelona machine the encoding nearly ran real time. Extremely impressive. You will be seeing Barcelona in servers long before it finally gets to our desktops though.

The speed of the processors was not disclosed, but given the speed of the encoding done they were not "slow" processors by any stretch of the imagination. Sticking my hand into the machines and feeling the base of the CPU heatsinks, the slightest warmth was detected. The same went for the northbridge heatsinks in the systems as well.

Also shown off was a 300mm wafer that was composed of 45nm parts built in AMD's Fab 36 in Dresden, Germany.

I owe Anand a big "Thanks!" for letting me use his camera.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Oh, and someone needs to tell Anand that his camera sucks!

He needs to travel with a Canon EOS-5D, the DSLR with the best high ISO performance at the moment, and with a nice macro lens to do such hardware the justice it deserves!

 

[tuteja1986]

Coolies

 

[TanisHalfElven]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Oh, and someone needs to tell Anand that his camera sucks!

He needs to travel with a Canon EOS-5D, the DSLR with the best high ISO performance at the moment, and with a nice macro lens to do such hardware the justice it deserves!

LOL.
looking from the pictures i can't even see whats running ? whats with all the brighjt lighty fans.

back on topic. i wish AMD would just let people see how well barcelona performs. like intell did with core 2. man that would be so amazing.

 

[sisq0kidd]

Did they really have to use LED fans? And 5-6 of them at that!

 

[KhoiFather]

They had to show it off like whoa some how ya heard?

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Originally posted by: tanishalfelven
back on topic. i wish AMD would just let people see how well barcelona performs. like intell did with core 2. man that would be so amazing.

It would be amazing for folks like us who are dying for information...but no so amazing for AMD. Think Core 2 benches preview and Pentium D sales.

If Phenom (Barcelona/Agena) kicks ass and there are hard numbers to support it, people may think thrice about buying existing Athlon64 CPUs.

 

[SexyK]

I wonder if a case with a side panel made of all fans will be required or just optional???

 

[lyssword]

Why is one pic showing one processor and other dual processor?

 

[TanisHalfElven]

Originally posted by: SexyK
I wonder if a case with a side panel made of all fans will be required or just optional???

LOL. nice

 

[AmdInside]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Oh, and someone needs to tell Anand that his camera sucks!

He needs to travel with a Canon EOS-5D, the DSLR with the best high ISO performance at the moment, and with a nice macro lens to do such hardware the justice it deserves!

You don't need a Canon 5D. But with all the knowledge hardware tech sites have, I am surprised they never bothered learning how to take photos.

 

[Wreckage]

Originally posted by: sisq0kidd
Did they really have to use LED fans? And 5-6 of them at that!

That case has more fans than Elvis :shocked:

 

[yacoub]

must run hot as heck

 

[ty1er]

sweetness.

 

[agathodaimon]

Originally posted by: Wreckage

Originally posted by: sisq0kidd
Did they really have to use LED fans? And 5-6 of them at that!

That case has more fans than Elvis :shocked:

:disgust:

 

[Srfrbum]

DOH, Why is it not opening for me..