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Both Newegg and ZipZoomFly are now selling AMD's latest offering in the CPU market: the AMD Quad FX. At the moment you need to buy the ASUS L1N64-SLI WS if you want to use of one these processors because they will require Socket-F, but this won't be cheap. The Quad FX itself will set you back a minimum of about $129 and the motherboard will cost at least $379.99 at current prices. Whilst Newegg is selling all of the Quad FX speeds, ZipZoomFly only has the FX-70 at present.

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The phrase "too little, too late" springs to mind :(
 

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I noticed the processors on newegg a few days ago. My question is: Do you need to buy two of them or do both processors come in a single package?

Not that I am thinking of buying one, or that it is important really, but I am just curious.
 

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more like too little, too early....

quadcore is something to be reckon with in another year or so...


LOL I get what you mean :)

I was speaking in terms of AMD Vs Intel ;)
 

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I noticed the processors on newegg a few days ago. My question is: Do you need to buy two of them or do both processors come in a single package?

Not that I am thinking of buying one, or that it is important really, but I am just curious.

I assume that you'd need two of them otherwise they would state it somewhere clearly in the description, but I could be wrong. I was wondering that too, it should be clearer but it only says dual core in the specs on Newegg so I'm saying one CPU per package. I'm assuming you can run these alone can you? Or do you have to have two in any situation?
 

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You buy them in pairs. so for like 399 or 599 or whatever, its for both procs. This isnt too little too later (it doesnt make head to head with Intel, except in some games) but its a big freaking complicated deal. Something I may try later, but not anything Im hoping for.
 

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Both Newegg and ZipZoomFly are now selling AMD’s latest offering in the CPU market: the AMD Quad FX. At the moment you need to buy the ASUS L1N64-SLI WS if you want to use of one these processors because they will require Socket-F, but this won’t be cheap. The Quad FX itself will set you back a minimum of about $129 and the motherboard will cost at least $379.99 at current prices. Whilst Newegg is selling all of the Quad FX speeds, ZipZoomFly only has the FX-70 at present.

Source: DailyTech

so, this is useful if you run a huge terraserver handling gigs upon gigs of information every hour. no use for your avg gamer or pc enthusiast.
 

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so, this is useful if you run a huge terraserver handling gigs upon gigs of information every hour. no use for your avg gamer or pc enthusiast.

that's a pretty rash statement; are kentsfields useful to us mere non-datacenter mortals? Assuming they are, why not dual FXes?

The silver lining to the dual FX system is that come AMD's real quadcore chip you'll probably be able to get octal cores pretty easily :)
 
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You buy them in pairs. so for like 399 or 599 or whatever, its for both procs. This isnt too little too later (it doesnt make head to head with Intel, except in some games) but its a big freaking complicated deal. Something I may try later, but not anything Im hoping for.

Benchmarks showed they got pwnd hard, use too much power and even though they put them together in a box they're still relabeled Opterons.
 

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You buy them in pairs. so for like 399 or 599 or whatever, its for both procs. This isnt too little too later (it doesnt make head to head with Intel, except in some games) but its a big freaking complicated deal. Something I may try later, but not anything Im hoping for.



the price quoted on the websites is for 1 CPU, you MUST buy 2 of these as a pair.


AMD Athlon 64 Quad FX-72 Dual Core Processor Socket F Windsor FX 2.8GHZ 2000FSB 125W 90NM Retail Box
Quad FX processors must be purchased in pairs, pricing is for a single processor.

Q: What is the AMD Quad FX Platform with Dual Socket Direct Connect Architecture?

A: The AMD Quad FX platform is a two-socket, four-core processing solution featuring Dual Socket Direct Connect (DSDC) Architecture for high-bandwidth processor to processor communication between matched pairs of AMD Athlon 64 FX-70, FX-72, and FX-74 multi-core processors.

The revolutionary AMD Quad FX platform is designed for extreme multi-tasking – Megatasking - for PC enthusiasts and power-users that run the most processor-intense tasks simultaneously. The AMD Quad FX platform with DSDC Architecture is ready for massively multi-threaded games and the most demanding multi-threaded digital content creation software. The AMD Quad FX platform is AMD’s first multi-processor, multi-core platform designed for PC enthusiasts. The platform is ready for the multi-core, multi-threaded future with planned upgradeability to 8 processor cores.
 

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Well the objective is archive a quad core none the less.

Buy a quad Pentium Pro off ebay. You'll have quad core that way as well.
When Intel glues 2 cores to create dual core people complain but when AMD uses 2 sockets it's suddenly ok?
 
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it doesnt make head to head with Intel, except in some games


AMD´s quad thing is just an expensive bad joke. :ohwell:
See that 4800+ and 5000+?

http://hardware.thgweb.de/2006/11/30/amd_4x4_athlon_64_fx74_quadcore_vierkern_cpu/page23.html
 
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When Intel glues 2 cores to create dual core people complain but when AMD uses 2 sockets it's suddenly ok?

In the AMD fanboy's eyes it is perfectly acceptable.

In the real world Intel release Quad Core processors and AMD said "Oh crap, we can't even glue two dual cores together to at least compete with them, so we will just take server hardware that uses two dual core processors and relabel it as desktop hardware and use that to compete." The worst part is that someone actually thought that would be a good idea...:banghead:
 
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The worst part is that someone actually thought that would be a good idea...
2nd that.
 

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Benchmark Scores I dont have time for that.
that's a pretty rash statement; are kentsfields useful to us mere non-datacenter mortals? Assuming they are, why not dual FXes?

The silver lining to the dual FX system is that come AMD's real quadcore chip you'll probably be able to get octal cores pretty easily :)



sun came out with that a LONG ime ago i recall me and the banjoman talking about it.
 
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The silver lining to the dual FX system is that come AMD's real quadcore chip you'll probably be able to get octal cores pretty easily :)

Nice idea, however you can already get octal cores easily. They're called Clovertown. And a complete system costs just as much as the quadfather if not less. Plus there is more choice in boards and such.


As for people claiming quad core is pointless at the moment, those are probably the same people who have been saying SMP is pointless for the past 10 years.
 
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clovertown, dont cost less, theyre a fair bit more (at least everywhere ive seen both)

but they are a lot better, if only they used unregistered memory
 
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clovertown, dont cost less, theyre a fair bit more (at least everywhere ive seen both)

but they are a lot better, if only they used unregistered memory

$450 for the 1.6GHz model. And at 1.6GHz it keeps up with those quadfathers quite well. Add to that that you can add a second Clovertown.
 
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oh yeah, i was looking at higher clocked ones (which would give the amd a RIGHT GOOD BEASTING!!!!)
 
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