The Inquirer beweert dat de nieuwe Athlon H-Series volledig compatible zal zijn met zowel SSE als SSE2. Volgen het bericht zou dit wel eens onder de naam 3DNow! Pro kunnen gebeuren. De vreemde naam 'H-Series' is nog nooit eerder in het nieuws gekomen, maar aangezien men aangeeft dat het Tyan Thunder K7 moederbord deze processors zal ondersteunen kan het bijna alleen maar over Palomino gaan.
Dit moederbord draagt de codenaam 'Guinness' zou voor elke processor een apart DDR geheugenkanaal hebben, naast een directe link tussen beide chips:
And very interesting reading it makes for too. The Tyan Thunder K7 mobo, which supports dual Athlon H-series microprocessors, offering up to 2.1GB/s per CPU, supports four PC2100 registered DIMMs, ECC scrubbing, 4X AGP Pro, on board SCSI, two network interface cards and on board graphics. One of its nicest features is its codename - Guinness.
[...] Developers will be able to choose between AMD and Intel 3D instruction in either Screaming Sindies or 3DNow, but the H Series of Athlons can run with fully optimised code.
Preliminary benchmarketing seen by The Inquirer show an 80 per cent boost in Photoshop 5.5 and 6.0 lighting effects, and the 3D StudioMax Heidi Renderer is something like 34 per cent up.
Sneller dan wat vergeten ze er alleen bij te vertellen
Bedankt voor de tip SG.
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Looking at the MX's passive sink, it's not hard to see that the lack of fan hurts performance badly, due to the lower heat output of the MX, it doesn't really need one, but on this hot beast of a card, the small passive cooler isn't sufficient. The other passive cooler, the Zalman unit, has a much larger surface area so that case cooling can be more effective at cooling the card, however, under load, performance still isn't too great, but considering that it makes no noise (a common complaint about the Blue Orbs), it's actually quite a nice unit.
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