Some news from CeBIT day 2 at Xbit Labs

[Duvie]

"as generally the dual-core Athlon 64 is designed for the same type of infrastructure as the company?s 90nm desktop chips. While the dual-core products have 110W TDP compared to 105W TDP of modern single-core chips, AMD says the dual-core desktop AMD64 products will be able to operate on current mainboards fine."

Seems to be contradictory to some reports of incompatability of the new Rev E3 chips....I know the Rev E3 chips are single core but it makes sense that if any change was done would be also applied in the newer dual core chips.....

It appears from AMDs comments they will have similar thermal needs so most current HSF's we use now will still be efficient....

Notice how it say "dual core desktop" and "current mainboards"...that should just about settle up the fact it is a sckt 939 chip....

 

[nealh]

Duvie..this sounds nice in theory but there is supposedly new thermal regulation on A64 Rev3 with SSE3 which is causing boot/shutdown issues on NF3/NF4....so unless a bios fix works I bet the new chips will not work correctly...reminds when AthlonXP got past 2100 there were issues on KR7A from Abit

 

[Duvie]

Originally posted by: nealh
Duvie..this sounds nice in theory but there is supposedly new thermal regulation on A64 Rev3 with SSE3 which is causing boot/shutdown issues on NF3/NF4....so unless a bios fix works I bet the new chips will not work correctly...reminds when AthlonXP got past 2100 there were issues on KR7A from Abit

that is why I mentioned that...

However there is a current board running it right now at the show in an alienware case and it is a current mainboard.....so the question will be..."who is going to get screwed????" It obviously works on one of them if not more....boards it doesn't work on hopefully canget a bios fix or somebody is going to be pissed...