A Look At AMD's Socket AM2 Platform

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Patrick Schmid, Achim Roos 21 Feb 2006 12:34

The anticipation surrounding AMD's upcoming Socket AM2 platform is amazing to witness. On the one hand, there is hardly a secret about it that had not been discovered months ahead of the product launch, so there is discussion of it all over the place. On the other hand, the enthusiast crowds are eager for the new platform, which will be associated with important changes in the PC world; these include the introduction of Microsoft's Vista operating system and AMD's first quad core processors. However, AM2 has not been about being better or faster until lately.....


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Source: http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/02/..._am2_platform/

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hrmm, so far, from that read amd's am2's aren't any faster from current hardware. we'll have to wait and see...

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hrmm, so far, from that read amd's am2's aren't any faster from current hardware. we'll have to wait and see...

yeah from what I read the performance wasn't nothing to write home about in comparison, but,
they are using an engineering sample, and a stipped down, pre-production mobo
and it was still runnin neck and neck with the X2 4800

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i do like how it runs on current drivers though. shows that it's already in a good running state. gj amd!

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OMG FX-62 ahoy!