Ahhhh, the glory days of building a $10,000 home computer are upon us again. How refreshing.

People who buy this should seriously consider their priorities in life.

This is a band-aid, but a quite compelling band-aid, especially as it seems that it will be available sooner rather than later this year - given the Alienware information.

You can get a link to all 150+ slides from the AMD presentation at Aces Hardware forum, they're far more in depth than this article overview.

Socket 4x4 is actually two AM2 sockets located next to each other in a specified layout. It can accept standard AM2 processors, I saw nothing that suggested that it was limited to FX processors only, although I wouldn't expect it to be a feature in anything lower than an X2.

Obviously AMD will reduce their prices after the launch of Conroe to be more competitive, this isn't a 2x $1100 CPU system, hopefully it will be a 2x $500 CPU system that will let AMD retain an overall performance lead over Conroe in the willy-waving high-end enthusiast benchmarking world.

Above what I can afford though. My money would go on whatever is best in the mainstream area of the market, and that's looking like Conroe right now, unless AMD price things better in 6 weeks time.

Why do i feel that for gaming i should not invest in pc any more.... cause they are just getting expensive .... i think PS3 would be a good choice atleast games wont be slow... or any other hassels. and best of all $600 and ur done with it for atleast 3 years no upgrading what so ever....

*lol* That's more desperate than the P4 MP -> P4 EE move.

I guess they couldn't even get a MCM ready in time, or the NUMA nature of that beast made the performance to inconsistent under WinXP, but moving a DP platform into the desktop shows just how far off the mystical K8L is.

This is mad, but if it's for FX line only, how much is this thing gonna cost ?

That's gonna be a crowded mobo... And overheating.

Wow, this is some fancy smancy tech there, two whole sockets at once.

Wow.

That's incredible.I'd build one for the Folding prowess alone. Plus, I'd never have to go back to work for test environment stuff. I could just bill for my comp time :D

Naysayers can bitch all they want, but if you don't see the HOT DAMN! factor... you're sucking a head-in-the-sand smoothie.

That tech won't be limited to just the FX processors. Dual-socket for the masses. I like it. A lot.

I can see the conversation with my wife now:

"Here honey, have my Opteron 170 system. Really, I don't need it now."

"What have you got for yourself?" *tapping toes*

"Apparently a world of hurt..." *rimshot*

Thank you, I'll be here all architecture!

Wow, the cost of having a Ron Jeremy e-penis just doubled. 2000$ worth of CPU and 1200$ worth of video card. Where do I sign up? I must compensate! Compensate!

Remember boys, a fast computer will get you laid.

This is as bad as Quad SLI. Can you imagine the mobo, heat, power consumption *shivers*, and the price!!! Which brings me to this point, will 1% of people buy it or .001%? Guess it's good to have the option for people with the money. :S

Now if we could get some dually action from hard drives

The link to ExtremeTech just says an Athlon64 x2. AMD.com mentions no restrictions to the FX line, but does mention that this architecture will work with quad-core CPU when they are introduced

Any word on ground clearance? Approach and departure angles?

I wonder if this will be limited to FX series processers only... I could see use if it allowed other processers but limiting it to the 1,000 dollar wonder makes some of us sad :(

The cream is so smooth the heatsink just slides right off the processor.

I'm not a fan of either company. I buy what is the better value at the time. It seems to me that AMD is kind of in a panic mode right now. This technology could probably be implemented with little retooling. The FX processors are their low volume parts anyway. Something tells me that this was probably thrown together at the last moment. Sorry, I'm not going to spend $2000 on just processors. I could buy a great system for that much.

Expensive and extravagant now? Yes, by all means.

The wave of the future? Yes, and AMD knows it and is going there first.

I think my Athlon64 x2 3800+ w/ 2GB RAM will be adequate for just about anything for the next 5-6 years.

Only thing I plan on doing next us raid 0 with backup options

Rich boys toy. Waste of money.

ah !!! what is the difference from a 2 socket board with 2 CPUs ?
How much this will cost ?
Are they grasping for the performance crown ?

This is going to be as popular as the 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000!

(and less useful)

I actually like this idea *IF* it's not restricted to just FX processors, and *IF* AMD makes some big price cuts on their dual core lineup in response to Conroe. AMD's profits would suffer, but at least they could be both price/performance and performance competitive with Intel (rather than just price/performance).

Of course, even then, it's totally useless to gamers, so the marketing is all wrong. But that's not my problem :)

Am I the only one tired of the "throw more cores at it" attitude? It's the same thing as the "more is better" megahertz thing Intel did. This platform is supposed to be for enthusiasts, for gamers....how many games out there show significant performance improvements with dual cores? And now they're throwing 4 cores as it, as if that will make a difference. What crap.

I just read about this lol :p. I tend to keep on leaning towards INTEL Conroe. It would make more scense not to go 4X4 but 2 ( CPU ) X 2 ( gpu ) or soon just 4 ( 1 CPU, 4 Cores { Kentsfield for example } ) X 2 ( GPU SLI / CF ) lol ; ).

Does ATI have a Dual GPU card?

I like to do 3D rendering (and graphics programming) and this looks like it would kick ass.. tough call though, 'cause I really love what I've seen of Conroe

ya same question can it work with X2 3800 X 2 ...... oh i am again getting confused by this X sign..... ;-)

so now we see why they went to 940 pins, AM2s are really opterons.

i'm kind of impressed with what AMD's been up to lately, seems like they're making the best of a bad situation. you can get an AM2 CPU for 68 dollars, and a good board for 70 or 80 and then upgrade to an fx-62 or beyond down the road.

if you wanted expandability in the past you'd have to drop 150 on the venice 3000+, no semprons for the 939 socket.

Looks like it only works with FX chips...

Seems retarded to me.

This is just as bad if not worse then pulling the tried "EE card".

It sounds like AMD is just binning some of their upcoming 22xx Opterons to work with unbuffered DDR2 and tweaked to get higher clocks.

What makes it worse is to pull it off as a "hardcore gaming solution" when multi-threaded games are far and few.

This setup just makes the upcoming X6800 look even more sweet in general gaming performance and power consumption.