65nm Athlons Debut With Lower Power Consumption 151
TheRaindog writes "AMD has finally rolled out Athlon 64 X2 processors based on 65nm process technology, and The Tech Report has an interesting look at their energy usage and overclocking potential compared to current 90nm models. The new 65nm chips consume less power at idle and under load than their 90nm counterparts, and appear to have plenty of headroom for overclocking. An Athlon 64 X2 5000+ that normally runs at 2.4 GHz was taken all the way up to 2.9 GHz with standard air cooling and only a marginal voltage boost, suggesting that we may see faster chips from AMD soon."
It's a question of cores (Score:5, Funny)
It's like driving down the highway in your train vs riding the rails in your Audi. Sure, you can try to drive the car on the train tracks for a while, but eventually the springs will break and your tires will pop and you end up walking to your final destination. But if you took the train, you'd probably tear up the road and it would take a while since you couldn't get much traction with the large metal wheels, but since you're carrying a whole lot of stuff in the train cars being pulled behind you, your bandwidth / time ratio is very favorable.
Interesting.. (Score:5, Funny)
As someone once said... (Score:5, Funny)
Illegal? (Score:0, Funny)
Good news, guys! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I wouldn't overclock an AMD (Score:2, Funny)
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Re:HTPC (Score:5, Funny)
it's too bad video playing couldn't happen on one cpu while video compression happened on another.
someone should invent that. it could be called "Sametime Many Programs" or "SMP" for short.
Re:As someone once said... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:SMP (Score:5, Funny)
OT (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I wouldn't overclock an AMD (Score:1, Funny)
Perhaps he means 'well' as opposed to 'rare'.
I prefer mine medium.