HookeyStreetThe phrase "too little, too late" springs to mind :(

ktrmore like too little, too early....

quadcore is something to be reckon with in another year or so...

newtekie1I noticed the processors on newegg a few days ago. My question is: Do you need to buy two of them or do both processors come in a single package?

Not that I am thinking of buying one, or that it is important really, but I am just curious.

ktrmore like too little, too early....

quadcore is something to be reckon with in another year or so...

Jimmy 2004Both Newegg and ZipZoomFly are now selling AMD’s latest offering in the CPU market: the AMD Quad FX. At the moment you need to buy the ASUS L1N64-SLI WS if you want to use of one these processors because they will require Socket-F, but this won’t be cheap. The Quad FX itself will set you back a minimum of about $129 and the motherboard will cost at least $379.99 at current prices. Whilst Newegg is selling all of the Quad FX speeds, ZipZoomFly only has the FX-70 at present.

Source: DailyTech

Easy Rhinoso, this is useful if you run a huge terraserver handling gigs upon gigs of information every hour. no use for your avg gamer or pc enthusiast.

WarEagleAUYou buy them in pairs. so for like 399 or 599 or whatever, its for both procs. This isnt too little too later (it doesnt make head to head with Intel, except in some games) but its a big freaking complicated deal. Something I may try later, but not anything Im hoping for.

WarEagleAUYou buy them in pairs. so for like 399 or 599 or whatever, its for both procs. This isnt too little too later (it doesnt make head to head with Intel, except in some games) but its a big freaking complicated deal. Something I may try later, but not anything Im hoping for.

AMD Athlon 64 Quad FX-72 Dual Core Processor Socket F Windsor FX 2.8GHZ 2000FSB 125W 90NM Retail Box
Quad FX processors must be purchased in pairs, pricing is for a single processor.

Q: What is the AMD Quad FX Platform with Dual Socket Direct Connect Architecture?

A: The AMD Quad FX platform is a two-socket, four-core processing solution featuring Dual Socket Direct Connect (DSDC) Architecture for high-bandwidth processor to processor communication between matched pairs of AMD Athlon 64 FX-70, FX-72, and FX-74 multi-core processors.

The revolutionary AMD Quad FX platform is designed for extreme multi-tasking – Megatasking - for PC enthusiasts and power-users that run the most processor-intense tasks simultaneously. The AMD Quad FX platform with DSDC Architecture is ready for massively multi-threaded games and the most demanding multi-threaded digital content creation software. The AMD Quad FX platform is AMD’s first multi-processor, multi-core platform designed for PC enthusiasts. The platform is ready for the multi-core, multi-threaded future with planned upgradeability to 8 processor cores.

DanTheBanjomanIt's not quad core though, it's dual dual core. ie relabeled Opterons.

ktrWell the objective is archive a quad core none the less.

DanTheBanjomanBuy a quad Pentium Pro off ebay. You'll have quad core that way as well.
When Intel glues 2 cores to create dual core people complain but when AMD uses 2 sockets it's suddenly ok?

it doesnt make head to head with Intel, except in some games

DanTheBanjomanWhen Intel glues 2 cores to create dual core people complain but when AMD uses 2 sockets it's suddenly ok?

The worst part is that someone actually thought that would be a good idea...

XooMthat's a pretty rash statement; are kentsfields useful to us mere non-datacenter mortals? Assuming they are, why not dual FXes?

The silver lining to the dual FX system is that come AMD's real quadcore chip you'll probably be able to get octal cores pretty easily :)

XooMThe silver lining to the dual FX system is that come AMD's real quadcore chip you'll probably be able to get octal cores pretty easily :)

Gringsclovertown, dont cost less, theyre a fair bit more (at least everywhere ive seen both)

but they are a lot better, if only they used unregistered memory