Socket AM2 birth scheduled for 6th of June

[Gamer X]

Inquirer Article
AMD has a fixed date for its socket AM2 launch. We can now finally confirm that AMD has decided to rename its socket and to call it socket AM2. All of the dual core performance, mainstream and extreme gaming versions of the AM2 CPUs will sample by the end of this month. The production of these socket AM2 based CPUs or revision F is scheduled for April 30th while the channel orders will begin on May the 15th.
As of Tuesday, June the 6th, you will be able to buy these CPUs in the stores. AMD plans to reveal the CPUs at Computex, the Taipei based show. DDR 2 memory should boost the Athlon's performance but we still wonder why AMD didn't wait a while and adopt the upcoming DDR3. Some memory manufacturers think that now is the right moment to move from DDR one to DDR 2 as the cost is almost the same, and with DDR 2 667 or DDR 2 800 you can really see the performance difference.

AMD will continue to use its brands as Athlon 64 FX dual core processor, Athlon 64 dual core processor and Athlon 64 single core processor. µ

 

[saltedeggman]

Originally posted by: Gamer X
Inquirer Article
AMD has a fixed date for its socket AM2 launch. We can now finally confirm that AMD has decided to rename its socket and to call it socket AM2. All of the dual core performance, mainstream and extreme gaming versions of the AM2 CPUs will sample by the end of this month. The production of these socket AM2 based CPUs or revision F is scheduled for April 30th while the channel orders will begin on May the 15th.
As of Tuesday, June the 6th, you will be able to buy these CPUs in the stores. AMD plans to reveal the CPUs at Computex, the Taipei based show. DDR 2 memory should boost the Athlon's performance but we still wonder why AMD didn't wait a while and adopt the upcoming DDR3. Some memory manufacturers think that now is the right moment to move from DDR one to DDR 2 as the cost is almost the same, and with DDR 2 667 or DDR 2 800 you can really see the performance difference.

AMD will continue to use its brands as Athlon 64 FX dual core processor, Athlon 64 dual core processor and Athlon 64 single core processor. µ

Price will be insanely high at launch... I will probably upgrade by the end of this year to AM2 (currently s939 opteron @ 2.7ghz)

 

[ayabe]

Plus don't forget the 65nm's that will launch at the beginning of '07, that's what I'll be waiting for.

 

[trexmgd]

Hmm... 6th of June in the year 2006: Is that like 666? What's going on over there at AMD?

 

[uOpt]

Originally posted by: Gamer X
DDR 2 memory should boost the Athlon's performance but we still wonder why AMD didn't wait a while and adopt the upcoming DDR3. Some memory manufacturers think that now is the right moment to move from DDR one to DDR 2 as the cost is almost the same, and with DDR 2 667 or DDR 2 800 you can really see the performance difference.

As any overclocker knows, higher RAM frequency does little on AMD64, and pretty much nothing if you have to increase the timings to get it. For 2.6-3.0 GHz on an AMD64 pretty much nothing happens over 250 MHz RAM at 3-4-4-8 (I tested up to 330 MHz).

The reason why AMD switches to DDR2 is that they don't want to be left behind when RAM manufacturers increase DDR2 volume more and more and hence DDR becomes more expensive than DDR2.

Another reason is that for the same quality of integrated memory controller you can easily have twice the total amount of unregistered memory, in the same number of slots.

4 GB won't cut if for what 2.6-3.0 GHz dual-core AMDs in cheap boards can do, and the increase to 8 GB comes without additional cost for processor, board or memory when you switch to DDR2.

 

[GOREGRINDER]

Originally posted by: trexmgd
Hmm... 6th of June in the year 2006: Is that like 666? What's going on over there at AMD?

MWAA-HA-HA-HA-HAAA,.. :evil:

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: GOREGRINDER

Originally posted by: trexmgd
Hmm... 6th of June in the year 2006: Is that like 666? What's going on over there at AMD?

MWAA-HA-HA-HA-HAAA,.. :evil:

Close. It's 6606. just gotta wait another 60 years for AMD to really shine at 6666. 😛

 

[Skott]

D-Day!

 

[TankGuys]

I don't know... I'll beleive the launch dates when I actually have processors in hand 🙂

 

[d3lt4]

Originally posted by: Mik3y

Originally posted by: GOREGRINDER

Originally posted by: trexmgd
Hmm... 6th of June in the year 2006: Is that like 666? What's going on over there at AMD?

MWAA-HA-HA-HA-HAAA,.. :evil:

Close. It's 6606. just gotta wait another 60 years for AMD to really shine at 6666. 😛

actually it would be 060606 which is kinda like 666. 😕

 

[SpeedZealot369]

I'm left a little dissapointed with the new board.. no major imporvments other then introducing ddr2, but it will be interesting to see ddr2 work with amd's intergrated memory controller.

 

[SolMiester]

Originally posted by: d3lt4

Originally posted by: Mik3y

Originally posted by: GOREGRINDER

Originally posted by: trexmgd
Hmm... 6th of June in the year 2006: Is that like 666? What's going on over there at AMD?

MWAA-HA-HA-HA-HAAA,.. :evil:

Close. It's 6606. just gotta wait another 60 years for AMD to really shine at 6666. 😛

actually it would be 060606 which is kinda like 666. 😕

& if you wrote your dates like the rest of the world dd/mm/yy, it would be the same...LOL

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: TankGuys
I don't know... I'll beleive the launch dates when I actually have processors in hand 🙂

Amen!

 

[Link]

AMD would better make sure DDR2 does make a very significant performance improvement over DDR1. If not, Intel will take back the market share AMD taken away.

 

[DeathReborn]

4 days before my birthday, yay! lol

I'll probably wait until there is a suitable Motherboard for Overclocking & SLI or Crossfire.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: Link
AMD would better make sure DDR2 does make a very significant performance improvement over DDR1. If not, Intel will take back the market share AMD taken away.

It's not going to.

Unless they have some magic up their sleeves in the form of other architectural changes, Intel will have a nice little performance lead by this late summer/fall, if scheduled releases go as announced.

Just my guess 😛

 

[R3MF]

the inq is also reporting that AM2 will support DDR2 800 from the get-go which is a nice surpise if correct, its just so much neater. 😀

 

[Dribble]

Originally posted by: MartinCracauer
As any overclocker knows, higher RAM frequency does little on AMD64, and pretty much nothing if you have to increase the timings to get it. For 2.6-3.0 GHz on an AMD64 pretty much nothing happens over 250 MHz RAM at 3-4-4-8 (I tested up to 330 MHz).

And that test was done with a cpu with how many cores?
Assuming one, then if you have two you need twice the memory bandwidth to keep them both happy. As AM2 is a new socket and likely to support four core A64's in the future then you need four times the bandwidth, in which case if anything DDR2 seems too slow.

 

[BlacKJesuS]

SO how do those motherboards that claim they have AM2 support work??