AMD R790 Thermal Disipation

[metro.cl]

We at Chilehardware are really proud to have released so much info about this upcoming chipset it all started in October 2006 and we havent stopped.


Cold as Ice


AMD esta pronto a lanzar su RD790, chipset high end para sus procesadores AMD64. Estoy seguro que hemos sido el sitio con mas información y mas primicias sobre la nueva generación de chipsets de AMD.

History:

Informacion Confidencial de ATI
Mas información sobre RD790
Roadmap AMD-Chipsets
AMD RD790 Codename: Wahoo
Update AMD CHipset Roadmap
Gigabyte RD790 Quad Crossfire


Resume:

• RD790 es el chipset High End de AMD
• RD790 sera fabricado en 65nm su voltaje operacional sera de 1.1v
• Su dimension es de 27x27mm
• Soportara HT3
• Socket F 1207 pines puede soportar hasta 2 CPUs
• PCI-Express 2.0 en 2x16x o 4x8x
• Fecha de lanzamiento H2 2007

Ahora la novedad:

Max Tcase: Máxima temperatura recomendada de funcionamiento, 105ºC
Tj MAx: Máxima temperatura que puede soportar sin daños al chipset
Temperatura mínima de funcionamiento: 0ºC


Estas mediciones se llevan a cabo en el pero escenario posible, para AMD este es el siguiente:

Correr 3dmark01 o 3dmark06 a una resolución mínima de 1600x1200 con una temperatura ambiente de 45ºC, manteniendo los ventiladores del sistema al mínimo de sus RPM.




Con un TDP tan bajo volveremos a los pequeños coolers para los chipsets, este es el cooler recomendado por AMD para este Chipset.




Source: CHW Lethal Squad

p.d.Sorry about spanish but you get most of the idea or you can use google translate

[Fr3ak]

15W TDP
Thats lovely for a chipset.
Intel could try to come at least close to that with their high end chipsets

[BrowncoatGR]

Wow if true this is sweet. Although id rather have 2x PCIE x16. Im hoping RD780 will have that.

[bigdaddy25fb]

Very nice. I like to see next gen hardware with low TDP. Makes me happy inside to know my bills will be lower.

[nn_step]

a full 10w cooler than an nForce4

[ownage]

I dont believe Nubforce chipsets will ever be cool!

[dexman]

good to see a low TDP considering it´s a high end chipset. more-less on par with P35 but X38 will be way higher if the rumours of 35W comes true.

[NH|Delph1]

That's like a tenth of the 680

//Andreas

[Zytek_Fan]

I hope it's a beast of a chipset for OCing Phenom

[metro.cl]

This is really good news for AMD im happy for them

[zerazax]

good news and AMD haven't gone in a sentence in a long time..

[BossBorot]

woot no heatpipe theme park mobos from AMD.

[Lightman]

15W TDP and all nice features like 2 CPU support, HT3, PCIe2.0 (2x16 or 4x8), etc... So you can't even compare it to X38! You need to look at power hungry Intel server chipset with half of that capabilities...

We also need to remember that with K10 CPU this chipset will be conserving power together with CPU when in PowerSaving mode. Simply when K10 will shut down half of HT bus due to low usage, other end of the bus (RD790) will also conserve power. It's kinda 2 birds at one stone .

[nn_step]

15W TDP and all nice features like 2 CPU support, HT3, PCIe2.0 (2x16 or 4x8), etc... So you can't even compare it to X38! You need to look at power hungry Intel server chipset with half of that capabilities...

We also need to remember that with K10 CPU this chipset will be conserving power together with CPU when in PowerSaving mode. Simply when K10 will shut down half of HT bus due to low usage, other end of the bus (RD790) will also conserve power. It's kinda 2 birds at one stone .

Shhh, Intel isn't supposed to notice that until 3 months after it comes out

[Jimmer411]

15W TDP and all nice features like 2 CPU support, HT3, PCIe2.0 (2x16 or 4x8), etc... So you can't even compare it to X38! You need to look at power hungry Intel server chipset with half of that capabilities...

We also need to remember that with K10 CPU this chipset will be conserving power together with CPU when in PowerSaving mode. Simply when K10 will shut down half of HT bus due to low usage, other end of the bus (RD790) will also conserve power. It's kinda 2 birds at one stone .

Oh man things like that make deciding between Q6600 in a few weeks or waiting till K10 very hard! Dropping the power consumption by that much will help out immensly at night when I dont want to sweat in my sleep, sep in the winter time when I welcome it.







Will we ever have Pci-e 16/16 buses? Seems all I ever see is 16/4 and 8/8 :/

[Poodle]

What's up with the Socket F? Is it just for the FX or will they make it for proper server boards also?

[Morais]

that are very good news! thank you for sharing to us

[tictac]

browncoatGR ... rd790 support two pci express 16x lanes or four pci express 8x lanes..

[Zytek_Fan]

Oh man things like that make deciding between Q6600 in a few weeks or waiting till K10 very hard! Dropping the power consumption by that much will help out immensly at night when I dont want to sweat in my sleep, sep in the winter time when I welcome it.







Will we ever have Pci-e 16/16 buses? Seems all I ever see is 16/4 and 8/8 :/

I know. I really want a new PC soon, but I have to wait to late August anyway...so it makes Q6600 or wait till K10 a very hard choice

[Micutzu]

15W TDP
Thats lovely for a chipset.
Intel could try to come at least close to that with their high end chipsets

RD790 doesn't include a memory controller, that makes a big difference.

[|3ourne]

RD790 doesn't include a memory controller, that makes a big difference.

yeah well , bout time somebody agreed that not having a memory controller on the motherboard is better. Too much lately have people been ranting and raving about the memory controllers on the nb that intel has. But does saying that give intel an excuse for higher TDP ???? Then AMD should be given an excuse if barcelona ran hotter than Kentsfield or Penryn since it DOES have a memory controller on board too eh


just a thought ....... just a thought

[NinjaWreck]

yeah well , bout time somebody agreed that not having a memory controller on the motherboard is better. Too much lately have people been ranting and raving about the memory controllers on the nb that intel has. But does saying that give intel an excuse for higher TDP ???? Then AMD should be given an excuse if barcelona ran hotter than Kentsfield or Penryn since it DOES have a memory controller on board too eh


just a thought ....... just a thought

Hey, no using logic around fanboys.

[NickS]

Damn my 49 in Spanish II...

[erwinz]

now we all need a good phenom ..

[nn_step]

What's up with the Socket F? Is it just for the FX or will they make it for proper server boards also?

Socket F has been the server socket since the start