Thursday, November 13th 2008
45nm AMD Processors to get Phenom II SKU
Earlier today, AMD announced the release of its much anticipated enterprise quad-core processor, the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron, codenamed "Shanghai". A regular feature with AMD press releases, is that the PR team details about the products' availability. In this particular release, AMD went a step further and revealed the brand name the company's desktop 45nm processors would carry: Phenom II, when getting into details about the AMD Dragon enthusiast platform. Dragon succeeds Spider, and consists of a Phenom II processor, running on AMD 7-series core logic, along with ATI Radeon HD 4000 series graphics accelerators.
The Phenom II processors will consist of a whole range of quad-core, triple-core and dual-core processors, with the products segregated on the basis of their core count, clock-speed and cache arrangement. Several models are lined-up for launch. The platform itself, as AMD asserts, would release in Q1, 2009. There are signs of the company launching some models of the Phenom II X4 sooner, for which motherboard vendors have already started releasing lists of their existing motherboards that are ready for the processors.
The Phenom II processors will consist of a whole range of quad-core, triple-core and dual-core processors, with the products segregated on the basis of their core count, clock-speed and cache arrangement. Several models are lined-up for launch. The platform itself, as AMD asserts, would release in Q1, 2009. There are signs of the company launching some models of the Phenom II X4 sooner, for which motherboard vendors have already started releasing lists of their existing motherboards that are ready for the processors.
39 Comments on 45nm AMD Processors to get Phenom II SKU
Asus used large EEPROM's to on the m2n line and up, so they all where bios upgradeable with a simple flash, problem is that asus bios and driver support for their onboard ADI chipsets is crap, its like they are just trying to piss off people who move from the likes of biostar tseries/tpower boards to asus higher end boards, stuff like non-functioanl TRFC settings really suck when your a geek like me who likes being able to overclock your ram properly.
Biostar ta770/780/790 boards according to biostar will get a bios update to support phenom2 chips, then RebelsHaven will put out a bios mod to unlock any hidden usefull fetures :)
Btw I do know that you can Get Flash PROMs/EEPROMs that support a Larger Capacity than the manufacturer aslong as they support the Same Signaling.
forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=76075
My buddy got one for his old p3 laptop because gateway never put out a bios upgrade to support the tu cpus(last gen p4) but the laptops board and chipset where compatable, he was able to take out the 733 p3 and put a 1.4gz celeron tu(100mhz ver of the p3 tu chips)
huge perf boost and heat was just a little higher(i replaced the stock lappy cooling fan with a higher flow one for him)
I can see asus arse raming their paying customers, its why i sold off my 2 am2 asus boards and went back fully to biostar :D
thats the list of boards i had in mind, but with Deneb/AM3 on the way would it be worth it lol.
www.rebelshavenforum.com/sis-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=45;t=000164
best site on the net to find info about the 790gx boards from biostar :D