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Definitely do not, if you are overclocking. A dual-core Opteron chip packs in about million transistors, and its die size is a very healthy mm 2. Remove Advertisements Sponsored Links. AMD's dual-core design is something more than just a pair of CPUs glued together on a single piece of silicon, and this design choice yields a performance dividend. This feature will function on a whole-chip basis; the CPU cores will not scale their clock speeds up and down independently.
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Try it, and you'll see. A pair of Opteron processors.

AMD Opteron™ Processor with AMD PowerNow!™ Technology Driver

This feature will function on a whole-chip basis; the CPU cores will oowernow scale their clock speeds up and down independently. Keep reading to see how the new Opteron stacks up against its Opteron predecessors and against Intel's latest "Nocona" Xeons.

The most widely noted example of these problems, by far, has been at the company Moore co-founded. By dialing back clock speeds and putting multiple CPU cores on a chip, the theory goes, processor performance can rise as opetron counts do. A shot of the dual-core Opteron die.

The higher models will carry a premium, but AMD plans to bring the prices of dual-core Opterons down over time into the territory of the current single-core models. The three-tiered processor series convention remains intact. AMD has not been entirely immune to these problems, but it has sidestepped their worst effects by keeping clock speeds down. Tablets Laptops and Netbooks Phones. In order to be able to post messages on the Overclock.

The original Opteron processor debuted two years ago today at speeds up to 2GHz.

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Their software is harder to remove than the virii. Password Please enter a smd for your user account. As a result, the Opteron tops out at 2. Two years later, the same processors are available at 2.

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Please enter your desired user name, your email address and other required details in the form below. LG HU85L projector needs but two inches to cast a 90" picture. They're cosmetically identical, save for the slightly revamped model numbering scheme. So the dual-core Opteron is large, but it's also a very close match for Intel's "Smithfield" dual core, which weighs in at roughly million transistors and mm 2although estimates and methods of counting transistors can vary.

Speculative execution and deep pipelining are by now very standard features, and CPU designs are getting increasingly complex and hard to manage. AMD's dual-core design is something more than just a pair of CPUs glued together on a single piece of silicon, and this design choice yields a performance dividend. That's the basic problem. BB code is On.

AMD's dual-core Opteron processors

However, instead of incrementing the tail end of the model number by two as clock speeds ramp up, as the Opterons, and did, the dual-core models will come in increments of five. We also have a head-to-head battle of single-socket, dual-core workstation processors: When you're not optimizing for the absolute best linear performance, he noted, many things are possible, including everything from changing the oxide thickness and transistor voltages to resizing buffers and more extensive clock gating.

Dell returns to the stock market after six years. Register Now In order to be able to post messages on the Overclock. Definitely do not, if you are overclocking. Distributed Computing - General.

Cranking up clock speeds hasn't helped much, either, because of transistor leakage problems. Customize The Tech Report The newer version with 2MB of L2 cache has million transistors. The first dual-core Opterons will arrive at clock speeds of 1.

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