Working Phenom RV670 system spotted

[danrok]

See front page:
http://www.aoaforums.com/frontpage/content/view/3280/2/

Comments?

[Gizmo]

Independent controls for power to each of the PCIe slots? Digital PWM? Full control of clock signal frequencies?

Sounds like AMD is trying really hard to convince computer enthusiasts that they are still a good choice. But those are gimmicks that distract from the core question: How well does it perform?

[keithwalton]

'Standard engineering sample' clockspeed (read 1.6GHz) and amd denying all cpu benchmarks is a slight concern as amd really does need to make headway with clockspeed to be even the slightest bit competitive.

I did see on the post screen it was using the ram at only 800mhz and not its 1066mhz that its supposed to support. 2T timing as well rather than 1T.

What is the use of the slot power control ? is it the slot can provide 255W just that its not very good. If you limit it to v1's 75W or even v2's 150W do the addon boards then work better

[cloasters]

I guess they thought they had to show us something, but this dance of Seven Veils reeks of obfuscation for its own sake.

[chrisbard]

Mmmmmm those toys look cool Let's see them working before we come up with a conclusion

[Strongwolf]

Drooling....

[Daniel ~]

I'd think that if they had something, they'd show it to us. Time to digg deep AMD!

[Azriel]

It's sad, really. Intel survived for a long time, producing inferior parts at twice the price, due to mindless brand loyalty. Unfortunately, the people that fueled AMD's years of grossly outperforming Intel, are not fanboys. They chose AMD because it was simply a cheaper, faster chip. Now Intel has nosed ahead of AMD, and they have all jumped over to the other side. I'm not faulting them. It's just sad that Intel only had to win for a few months to hurt AMD so badly that they will most likely stay out front for a very long time. We all will have slower PCs as a result. With no strong competition, Intel wil sit back, and crank out garbage for the next decade.

[cloasters]

Or maybe we'll have to recycle a ton of aluminum cans from our garbage to afford Intel's processors.

[weldzilla]

I have not posted for awhile as I am being worked to death and have no life suddenly. But I have no choice to comment as that drivel azriel is running requires it!!!

you say that when intel was down it only survived due to mindless loyalty. What garbage. the gap was never as large as you think. I will put my 3.4 presler right up against your 3800 any day I don't use it any more but I will pull this processor out and put that one in and run right over you.
It does not matter who wins in your weird little war no one will p[roduce garbage for the next 10 years!! That has to be about the most rediculous thing I have read yet..
There is simply no place on the timeline or road map for either company for 10 years of garbage. Good grief no wonder I stay out of the fanboy section I know you call it the amd section but hey I just call them like I see them. do yourself a favor sell al the machines in your sig and set up a Q6600 it will do more for less than all of them you have now.
If you like we can meet up in the benchmark seesion and see if you can hang with a Presler. On anything!! If you can't afford an intel dual core celeron which for around $70 dollars will rip apart a FX62 and higher than you need to rethink your careers and or your budgets.
I remember just last year a FX 60 was $1000 dollars and my $286 presler ripped it's little wings off...............

WZ

[Seperah]

No competition means garbage in...garbage out.

As much as you call it "drivel" he has a serious point; glad you read it.
That said, of freaking course your chip isnt going to look as bad when you push it to high hell and compare with synthetics.....

There was definetly a decent gap between Intel and AMD at a paticular point. I doubt it was galaxies wide, but certainly noticable in some(or most situations)

Easy with the fanboy talk when you come in and tell someone to axe their machines and push for another company... might sound somewhat - hypocritical?? =)

And the not affording comment was just a cheap shot; keep the gloves up zilla'.

[Daniel ~]

We really don't need to speak to one another as if we were waring armies!
Were just hardware guys try to do right by ourselves and each other.

There is always going to be differences in opinion, do we need to make that a bad thing?

[Gizmo]

Originally Posted by Daniel ~

There is always going to be differences in opinion, do we need to make that a bad thing?

Only if your hardware is different from mine!

[keithwalton]

AMD allways were a 'small fries' manufacturer. The bottom line being that for a long time they only had the one fab. Even when they had the superior product and the demand to go with it they couldnt make enough chips. Then they got the new fab online and signed a big deal with dell. But have fallen a generation behind in terms of cpu performance.

Because amd are small and lightweight (or at least they used to be) they were able to make great leaps in terms of performance to catch up with what intel were doing.
Intel due to its huge size just keeps on plodding along evolving its current products and shipping millions of its old products.
Intel have lots of fabs so they can manufacturer multiple generations at a time and even have entire fabs dedicated to making prototype chips.

Unfortunutly for amd penryn (yorkfield) has beaten phenom to market and its a corker of a chip that has alot of headroom left in it. From the reviews i've seen even though its a 3GHz chip (9x mult) its an extreme edition which means its mult is unlocked and all the reviwers have been able to hit 3.33GHz and in some cases 3.66GHz just by turning up the multiplier.

Which suggest intel could make a 3.66GHz (333x11) quad core cpu that runs at 1.25v
even though its a 130w tdp chip measurements have been made showing that its a 74w chip fully loaded at 3GHz and only ~90w at 3.66GHz

Amazingly fully loaded a yorkfield uses 47w less than a kentsfield at 3GHz
(the kentsfield already used less power than a 6400+ dual core chip)

and the part that will have amd worried is that on a small vcore increase all the chips can break the magical 4GHz speed on air. Reviewers have been getting chips past 4.5GHz on air / low end watercooling with just 1.45v however they're not wanting to break the new chips just yet and the voltage limit of 45nm chips is not yet known.

Personally i can hardly wait until the enthusiasts get hold of them and stick them under ln2, 5GHz should be easy, heck 6GHz might even be possible! (a chip was demo'd by intel at 5.9GHz not that long ago)

[Daniel ~]

Originally Posted by Gizmo

Only if your hardware is different from mine!

If only I could learn to think these things though!

[keithwalton]

Question really for AMD, where are the barca's quad cores ... i've just had a quick search around the web and i cant find someone who will sell me one. The best i could find was a stock expected on 11th december '07
They were 'launched' 7 weeks ago now ...

[Gizmo]

From what I've heard, AMD are having a really hard time making enough Barcs to meet their OEM demand (i.e. their yeilds are really low)