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To: pgerassi who wrote (212746)	10/5/2006 8:23:13 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

re: We were shown a dual processor socket AM2 platform that was powered by unregistered Samsung DDR2-800 memory (rated CL-5-5-5-15) and two Nvidia GeForce 7950GX2 graphics cards." Do you interpret that as meaning that the AM2 platform supports dual sockets? I was disappointed when I saw that 4x4 needed the new Opteron socket, eliminating less expensive AM2 CPUs. I thought it must be a limitation of socket AM2 that it couldn't support cache coherency. Petz

To: pgerassi who wrote (212746)	10/5/2006 8:32:09 PM
From: eracer	Respond to of 275872

Re: Its no less available than Kentsfield at this point. Kentsfield will be available this year and months before AMD's first quad-core CPU. And you should see the last page of that Tom's Hardware Article Why? AMD wasn't demonstrating a quad-core CPU. The video conferencing demo didn't demonstrate 4x4 outperforming a Kentsfield or a dual-socket Woodcrest system. Interesting that the article claims it was a dual-socket AM2 system. Newer stories claim 4x4 is 1207 only. So was the system really AM2? Did AMD public relations give the impression it was AM2 or not disclose the fact it was Socket-F? Was it some custom design that will never see the light of day in a desktop?