AMD demos 8 core Agena FX PC, and New "Stream Processing"

[Wildside]

Hope there's gonna be 4 PCI-E slots.

well, the chipset RD790 is the best mobo out of all of them, because it is the only one of these next-gen mobos that have 4 PCI-E 2.0 slots, HTX 3.0, dual Gigabit Ethernet, 1 PCI, n support dual CPU sockets.

 

[BennyV04988]

Do we even have a single application that can use that much processor power? If there is, I'd like to see it. (And i don't mean a retarded bench program, i mean a real application)

 

[baron5]

for all we no could end up like the r600

 

[Inferno]

Could, but this looks promising. Reignited competition, better pricing again, better tech for the money, if AMD wins again, we all win! Then i hope Intel wins, and back and forth, its the cycle that keeps great deals alive! And motivates the companies to develop better, more efficient, cheaper technology, all benefit us.

 

[Trotter]

AMD romped Intel with 64 bit. it's taken Intel a while to recoup, but they finally have. now it's AMD's turn to make a come back. Geez, I love the cycle.

I'm looking forward to the die shrinks, both for AMD's CPUs and ATI's GPUs.

 

[darksideleader]

Do we even have a single application that can use that much processor power? If there is, I'd like to see it. (And i don't mean a retarded bench program, i mean a real application)

no single application today can even use dual-cores to the fullest potenial. The hardware is moving fast but the software is advancing slowly.

 

[Apokalipse]

Not so far as I had read.

Only socket F (or maybe it will be F+) will use dual sockets so far. AM2+ will be single socket; Agena will be available in both.