AMD shows off 3.0 GHz Barcelona with 3x2900 XT?

AMD is showing off something that many people have doubted them about lately, and that is a high speed quad core processor. While not mentioned by name at AMD's analyst day, there are "Quad Core Processors for Desktop" being demonstrated using 3-way CrossFire. Both machines are running a yet-to-released Phenom processor based on the Agena core. One machine is running Call of Juarez and the other is running Stranglehold. I have personally played stranglehold on an Agena system and watched it fully utilize all four Agena cores!
 
Well, for the high clockspeed processors, they may just decide to charge something in the range of $1000, and therefore reduce demand.
 
I say: Less showing and more product on the shelf...
 
take a look at that picture....3.0ghz on a 4 core chip on the AMD stock heatpipe cooler....thats impressive in itself.
 
I think the 6 fans in the case may help ;)

it cant help too much...thats like saying you can take a stock heatsink, no heatpipes and just BLAST air over it and get the same results as a super high end hsf. it can only help soo much, the heatpipe scan only wick the heat away so fast.
 
Seeing stuff like this just makes my decision harder to make on who to finally go with come September :(
 
If that is representative of what we can expect on the market soon and not a one-in-5000-dies chip then this is very encouraging news.
 
What is with the giant [H] watermark? It practically ruins the pic for me. Was the old small [H]
not good enough this time?

On a separate note, which nuclear powered PSU is powering all three of those HD 2900 XTs?
 
What is with the giant [H] watermark? It practically ruins the pic for me. Was the old small [H]
not good enough this time?

Did it impact the creative shading of the screenshot taken with a camera? :p

And as for the watermark, that is OUR picture and I don't want it hotlinked all over the galaxy with my paying the bandwidth bill for it on other sites.
 
What is with the giant [H] watermark? It practically ruins the pic for me. Was the old small [H]
not good enough this time?

On a separate note, which nuclear powered PSU is powering all three of those HD 2900 XTs?

It's a Thermaltake ToughPower 1200.
 
What is with the giant [H] watermark? It practically ruins the pic for me. Was the old small [H]
not good enough this time?

Geez, dude.... Why don't you insult Kyle, and [H]ard|OCP a little more....Show some respect.

I bet you complain about anyone that puts their logo on things.


Kyle - THANKS for the awesome first shots of this.
 
Fantastic! I have to agree with CCUABIDExORxDIE - running on a stock heat sink at 3.0Ghz is impressive - the fact that it is a Quad Core running @ 3.0Ghz off a stock heat sink... INCREDIBLE :eek:

I now have renewed faith, and excitement for the coming Barcelona!
 
Well I guess this is one step better than a simulated 2.6Ghz barcelona. Still though I'm just looking at a screen shot here. Did they say anything about an eta date on this? If they dont start mass production of these chips untill 2Q08 then its kinda meh, but if they are shipping these bad boys out this year then thats really really really great news to hear for the enthusiast community.

Heres to hoping that AMD will get some high clocked K10's to market this year.
 
Good news. I already pulled the trigger on a Q6600, but for AMD to be able to come out flying with the Phenoms, it's only a good thing =)
 
Skeptic much? Come on lets leave the conspiracy theory at the door here for a second. While the pc industry has been pretty shady over the past few years, I would like to give amd the benefit of the doubt here even though they released this with very little information at all.
 
Theirs nothing in that pic that says that there are 4 cores running or even available. It could be a single core for all we know (which are on the road map for amd). And you need both bridges to run those two top cards in crossfire.

Their is nothing connecting the windows vista 3 ghz photo with a quad core phenom and theirs nothing telling me that any of those three cards are working together or at all.

PR stunt? I think so.
 
I didn't see this coming from AMD i was all set on switching to Intel in the next few months as this processor looked like it was going to be delayed for quite a while. Got my fingers crossed AMD comes through with this one.
 
Theirs nothing in that pic that says that there are 4 cores running or even available. It could be a single core for all we know (which are on the road map for amd). And you need both bridges to run those two top cards in crossfire.

Their is nothing connecting the windows vista 3 ghz photo with a quad core phenom and theirs nothing telling me that any of those three cards are working together or at all.

PR stunt? I think so.


Flipping heck doubter. :rolleyes:

Come on we want competetion so why are all of you shooting down amd in first sight.
The poster even stated hes seen the agena cores running, plus software crossfire is possible they have done it with the 19xx series. so they dont need a bridge.
 
Theirs nothing in that pic that says that there are 4 cores running or even available. It could be a single core for all we know (which are on the road map for amd). And you need both bridges to run those two top cards in crossfire.

Their is nothing connecting the windows vista 3 ghz photo with a quad core phenom and theirs nothing telling me that any of those three cards are working together or at all.

PR stunt? I think so.

Single core with 3 GPUs? Isn't that a bit retarded? Also two of the GPUs have the Crossfire bridge. And if the cards aren't working, how is anything even displayed on the monitor?:rolleyes:
 
the three GPU's could be 2 in xfire for graphics, and then the 3rd for physics processing...

i wouldnt mind that w/ GTX's ^^


as for the quad core... i cant wait to get one under water, and does anyone know what motherboard hey are using? im guessing its an amd test bed one and not commerical, but i wouldnt mind knowing
 
Single core with 3 GPUs? Isn't that a bit retarded? Also two of the GPUs have the Crossfire bridge. And if the cards aren't working, how is anything even displayed on the monitor?:rolleyes:

It wasn't running any benchmarks, theirs nothing in that picture saying that its a agena or barcelona based processor, theirs nothing saying how many cores are running. Secondly, It doesn't show THAT system hooked up to a monitor outputting video (is that too much to ask?). Every 2900XT comes with a crossfire bridge, meaning they would have two to hook the first set up, it would be stupid not too if that were a genuine tri crossfire setup (alot of info needs to be shared across the pciE bus), and since crossfire wouldn't work anyways w/o that second bridge, only one of those cards would be functioning anyways.

ive seen pictures of octo-SLi, didn't mean it worked however.

I'm just saying, this picture only proves that 3 2900xts can physically be put on the same board, not function in conjunction with eachother.

Also this picture doesn't prove that its running an agena / barcelona proc.

So why is everyone saying thats what it is? that what I want to know.
 
Sweet mother of Jesus my PC is now 4 years old since I have refused to buy Intel until I saw what AMD would come out with (and I'm poor)... could this finally be it?

Do you guys know how hard it is to game on an slot 754 now a days when everyone and their momma has a Core2 Duo??

My ultimatum to AMD: you have until Christmas
 
It wasn't running any benchmarks, theirs nothing in that picture saying that its a agena or barcelona based processor, theirs nothing saying how many cores are running. Secondly, It doesn't show THAT system hooked up to a monitor outputting video (is that too much to ask?). Every 2900XT comes with a crossfire bridge, meaning they would have two to hook the first set up, it would be stupid not too if that were a genuine tri crossfire setup (alot of info needs to be shared across the pciE bus), and since crossfire wouldn't work anyways w/o that second bridge, only one of those cards would be functioning anyways.

ive seen pictures of octo-SLi, didn't mean it worked however.

I'm just saying, this picture only proves that 3 2900xts can physically be put on the same board, not function in conjunction with eachother.

Also this picture doesn't prove that its running an agena / barcelona proc.

So why is everyone saying thats what it is? that what I want to know.

Cuz Steve said so! :p
 
simply put: go AMD!!
get this Phenom out!!! I will rampage the Intel forum if Phenom kick ass. if not, I will just bend over. =P
 
People with dual core cpu's have a hard time hitting 5.9 in the experience factor within Vista unless it is overclocked by a lot. The fact that it can hit 5.9 probably means it is a quad core as the Q6600's have the ability to hit 5.9 in Vista.
 
So, AMD hand picked a 3.0GHz sample to put on display. I'm not going to go so far as to say that it isn't a Barcelona, but we really don't know. Also, showing off the WinSAT score is a joke. I have a Athlon 64 4000+ 1GB DDR400 system that scores 5.9 in every category, but only because I edited the XML file to show that.

I really hope this is an indication of what AMD is going to do rather than just a PR stunt, but it doesn't look so hot.
 
So, AMD hand picked a 3.0GHz sample to put on display. I'm not going to go so far as to say that it isn't a Barcelona, but we really don't know. Also, showing off the WinSAT score is a joke. I have a Athlon 64 4000+ 1GB DDR400 system that scores 5.9 in every category, but only because I edited the XML file to show that.

I really hope this is an indication of what AMD is going to do rather than just a PR stunt, but it doesn't look so hot.

So a company like AMD is doing a PR stunt and also editing XML files to make the processor look better? I also heard AMD is responsible for Kennedy's assassination too.
 
Looks like they got in the C0 stepping and that they got the speed path issues fixed. Way to go AMD!!! :D

Now all we need is some benchies showing Phenom FX/X4/X2 CPUs eating Intel's C2Q/C2D alive in gaming...
 
So a company like AMD is doing a PR stunt and also editing XML files to make the processor look better? I also heard AMD is responsible for Kennedy's assassination too.

No, all I'm saying is that WinSAT scores aren't proof of performance and that a single 3.0GHz sample doesn't mean much if they can't get the yeilds to get them on the shelf at that speed.
 
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