Official AMD Barcelona Thread

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It's been discussed at length and I'm not a fan of recycled news.

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But if the first post was biased, the new article from Anandtech is interesting:

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=3006

Obviously, there is still same kind of information about AMD not fully ready but there is too informations like

We know that Barcelona works and runs benchmarks, as we saw back at AMD in May. But the demos that AMD ran were on its own motherboards, not on motherboards from its partners. AMD's partners just recently received their first Barcelona samples, and as expected, the boards require some heavy BIOS work before the new chips will even work.

The motherboard we tested on had minimal HT functionality and wouldn't run at memory speeds faster than DDR2-667; most video cards wouldn't even work in the motherboard. Memory performance was just atrocious on the system, but the motherboard manufacturer we were working with attributed this to a BIOS issue that it expects to be fixed in the very near future.

And this could a little bit invalidate the "quick and dirty benchmarks" result on cinebench.

On an other hand, this give some questions about the "simply plug in AM2..."