AMD Down 4 the Count? Future Map I vs A

[wizzackr]

Is that a reg ATX board?

Looks like regular ATX IMHO.

Seems like the era for a 1k PSU is near.

True, but you get 8 cores with 2 grafics cards for that (yeah, I know that 8 cores on 4x4 will have to wait till Q3/07)

 

[Martyr]

i think that motherboard will cost more than my computer did

 

[fubar569]

did i read that right...12...FREAKIN 12 SATAII connections with full RAID 0/1/5/JBOD support???

who in thier right damn mind needs 12 SATA connections?

with the storage capability, i'd say this is aimed more at high level workstation and they are just banking on the fact that the "bigger is better" overclocking/enthusiast/rich bastard market will buy it anyways because of the previously stated reason...or because they don't know any better...maybe a mix of both...

as an AMD fan, i fail to see how this is even worth thier time at all. i have a gut feeling the only thing going for it will be the possible upgrade to quad cores for 8 seperate cores with SLI support...and at first release, you better get a free jar of vaseline with that purchase

 

[wizzackr]

as an AMD fan, i fail to see how this is even worth thier time at all.

Simple: Marketing. Intel will have a quad core product out by November, even if it is not-so-native as some people like to point out. AMD on the other hand does not have a product that can directly compete or even be compared to it. So they go for a even-less-native quad-core solution and label a two-socket board configuration "quad core".

 

[BigMacAttack]

as an AMD fan, i fail to see how this is even worth thier time at all. i have a gut feeling the only thing going for it will be the possible upgrade to quad cores for 8 seperate cores with SLI support...and at first release, you better get a free jar of vaseline with that purchase

Now THAT'S funny!

 

[greyt_Autumn]

I think that hardware is getting ahead of software in this case- sure enterprise apps scale across multiple processors very well, but I'm not running Oracle at home. I play games. All of my games (save for FSX) are single threaded. In this case multi core hurts my performance as the clocks are slower than the equivalent single core.

So far I've only seen Alan Wake as more than 2 core ready, and the chip makers are about to push quads on us. Great. I'm sure that folding will entertain me until threading is more prevalent in games...

I'm thinking that true DX10 titles will be a bigger performer initially than simply shifting to multiple cores- these cores that still share cache as opposed to true SMP with multiple processors.

Now when devs get on board with threading out the wazoo, then we'll be in for some real treats. Talk about scalability.