AMD Phenom
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Today, I received my first quad-core review system, a Dell PowerEdge 1900 server powered by dual Intel Xeon E5310 processors.
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How I was exposed as that most superficial of gamers: The Console Collector.
At the AMD consumer briefing last Friday (July 13) in Hollywood, I got to play with an AMD Phenom-based system.
Loaded with 4 GB of RAM, dual AMD 2900 512MB video cards, the quad-core system represented the state of the art in gaming and performance.
Ian McNaughton of AMD was taking this amazing new (Midway) game, called Stranglehold through its paces. Directed by John Woo, and starring an on-screen visage of Chow Yun-Fat, this game allows, indeed, it requires that you blast everything in sight.
It was all good.....until he (Ian) asked me to take over game play.
Where I promptly froze!
Oh well, as my friend Manni always says: He who dies with the most toys, wins.
So there!
Chateau Marmont, Hollywood, California.
On Friday, July 13, 2007, I attended a confidential consumer presentation given by AMD at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood, CA.
At the event, laid out logically in a cottage on the hotel property, was very informative and dealt with the following areas:
AMD was kind enough to make a number of VITO*’s available to brief us, and I got so much information that I will be making a series of posts on the number of new offerings from AMD and partners.
However, I cannot leave you without letting you know I played with a Phenom-based system!
Well, sorta.
*VITO: Very Important Top Officer of a company.
The Phenom has landed!
A few seconds ago, AMD announced the AMD Phenom, the first true (native) quad-core CPUs on Planet Earth.
With the flagship Phenom FX, AMD also announced the Phenom x4 and Phenom x2 (dual-core) parts.
The Phenom FX will also allow octa-core computing when used in a dual-socket config utilizing AMD's Dual Socket Direct Connect (DSDC) architecture systems.