X48 Boards And Tri-Cores Processors Are Shipping
Despite the fact today another week of work comes to an end for a lot of people, for computer hardware stores, this is a big day. Two different series of products, coming from two companies that have been fighting each other for decades, have just begun shipping. The companies are Intel and AMD, as you probably figured out already, and the products...we'll see right away!
Despite the fact I am an AMD fan and I don't have any reason to hide it, I will start with Intel's part of the story. Some of the big mainboard manufacturers have just started shipping their products using the Intel X48 chipset, despite the fact this chipset wasn't officially revealed by Intel yet!
We're talking about ASUS and Gigabyte, and while retail stores all over the world may start selling them by the end of the month, Taiwanese and Japanese ones may have these products available earlier, even by the end of the week.
This new platform features dual-channel DDR3 1333MHz support (producers may also choose to support DDR3 1600MHz memory, although Intel decided not to offer support for it), a 1600MHz processor system bus, PCI Express 2.0 with multi-GPU capability, and excellent overclocking abilities. This should be it for now, but I am sure we'll find out more as these boards will start arriving in various hardware reviewers' computers...
Next topic - AMD's hot products. While not quite that hot, but expected by a lot of people, the triple-core AMD Phenom-8000 series are already on their way to the large computer manufacturers!
While these new processors won't take the performance crown from Intel, they are some nice additions to AMD's current product portofolio. These are the Phenom 8450 and 8650 models, running at 2.1GHz and 2.3GHz, with 1.5MB L2 cache, and 2MB L3 cache, but AMD didn't confirm these specifications yet.
These being said, let's wait until Dell and HP update their web pages with new systems using these new processors from AMD, but since not even AMD's online price list doesn't have these models included yet, I guess we'll have to wait at least a few weeks until that happens...
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