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AMD's AM2 Arrives!
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Tuesday, 23-May-2006 17:02:58 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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AMD have officially unveiled their much-awaited Socket AM2 platform, with two new CPUs and DDR2 support. As part of AMD’s ongoing commitment to deliver leading technology for desktop PCs, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the immediate availability of the AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 dual-core processor, the world’s ultimate processor for PC enthusiasts, and the AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+dual-core processor compatible with AMD’s new socket AM2 platform. Socket AM2 from AMD is designed to enable next-generation platform innovations such as AMD Virtualization and high-performance, unbuffered DDR2 memory to the award-winning AMD64 architecture.
General coverage on AMDZone, Bjorn3D, DailyTech, DriverHeaven, Guru3D, HardOCP, HotHardware, HWSecrets, Hexus, PCModdingMy, PC Perspective, PCPop, Phoronix, Planet3DNow, T-Break, Viperlair and XbitLabs.
Hexus reckon that Intel's Conroe spanks an AM2 FX-62, while Xbit look a closer look at the effects of DDR2-800 on AMD CPUs and Bjorn3D checked out the NVIDIA nForce 590 chipset. Hexus also looked at two pre-built FX-62 systems, from Scan and Evesham in the UK.
Discussion in this thread in our AMD Hardware forum.
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