939 is extended??

(cf)Eclipse said:
the power consumption didn't really drop. amd's just lowering the specs a bit, giving themselves less headroom for error :p
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LOL. Either you're joking or you didn't read the reviews.
 
JackPack said:
LOL. Either you're joking or you didn't read the reviews.
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i didn't see any indication that the actual TDP of the chips went down any, aside from those that are meant to be low power models ;)
 
Met-AL said:
Oh yea, well I emailed I.P. Freally, and he told me that J. Seckler heard from Damon Muzny's cat's groomer's dog's owner who is the VP of the janitor staff over at Intel, that he heard that J. Seckler had a Socket A X2 processor on the Tech Tour.

To say the least, when you all see a Socket A Athlon X2, I called that one.
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<3 :p




If you don't believe me, I can show Eclipse the email, I'm sure he would tell the truth.. ;) And, I did show BlackTigers91 the email, before this story even hit TheINQ.



Eclipse is about the only other one I would trust though.. :eek:


Oh, and Socket A X2 processors don't exist..
 
mpcamer1220 said:
<3 :p




If you don't believe me, I can show Eclipse the email, I'm sure he would tell the truth.. ;) And, I did show BlackTigers91 the email, before this story even hit TheINQ.



Eclipse is about the only other one I would trust though.. :eek:


Oh, and Socket A X2 processors don't exist..
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Yessir, this man tells the truth. He showed me this..about a week ago? He ain't a lying sack of horse shit. :p.
 
I would think if AMD did release faster 939 processors it would be in attempt to get current socket 939 owners not to jump ship since AM2 performance is not earth shattering. Although the enthusiast market that would actually upgrade their processor is reletively small. IMO, intel demoed the Conroe 6 months in advance of the actual launch to stunt the purchasing of new systems until Conroe was released. AMD may be doing something simliar until they release K8L.
 
JackPack said:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/23/amd_reinvents_itself/page16.html
http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/amd_am2/7.shtml
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2762&p=11
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they all kinda conflict with each other, and proves to me that all cpus draw a different amount of power, regardless of the rating. keep in mind that anand and tom's measure the full system, changing memory standards and moving to a new chipset will effect that, along with any efficiency changes in the power regulation for the cpu ;)

going by what lost circuit's results are, it definitly doesn't look like the chips are running much cooler. the 5000+ should be less demanding than the fx-60, as it has 1/2 the cache... the fx-62 on the other hand, is wickedly hot compared to it's 200mhz slower brother. the increase is more (like 12w more) than just mhz scaling along should account for.
 
(cf)Eclipse said:
they all kinda conflict with each other, and proves to me that all cpus draw a different amount of power, regardless of the rating. keep in mind that anand and tom's measure the full system, changing memory standards and moving to a new chipset will effect that, along with any efficiency changes in the power regulation for the cpu ;)
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Nah. If you read it carefully, there's no conflict. The 5000+ consistently consumes less than FX-60.

(cf)Eclipse said:
going by what lost circuit's results are, it definitly doesn't look like the chips are running much cooler. the 5000+ should be less demanding than the fx-60, as it has 1/2 the cache... the fx-62 on the other hand, is wickedly hot compared to it's 200mhz slower brother. the increase is more (like 12w more) than just mhz scaling along should account for.
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Heh. Cache has virtually no effect on power draw - everybody knows that. That's why it's preferred in the place of MHz in mobile processors.

Scaling isn't linear, and at 2.8 GHz, the steep part of the schmoo plot begins, as shown at RWT in their ISSCC news.
 
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