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AMD Quadfather – first part of an epic trilogy?

by James Morris on 24 November 2006, 08:35

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AMD Quadfather - first part of an epic trilogy?



It's déjà vu all over again. Just as Intel beat AMD to dual-core by a month or so, now AMD's first taster of four-core desktop computing is about to arrive in the wake of Intel's. Except this time the story is even more complicated. AMD's first quad-core desktop isn't so much two dual-core processors in one package, as with Intel's Core 2 Quad, but two entirely separate CPUs. Any self-respecting hardware enthusiast will know all this, though. What everyone is waiting for is details of the platform and concrete benchmark results....

Read on to see if our preview of Quad FX reveals significant promise or is it just a damp squib?