CES Report

[Magician]

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Dual core Intel nggak ada hyperThreading. So, it's all ended.

Task Manager shows the two cores in action, note that there is no Hyper Threading on Dual Core CPUs so there are only two physical CPUs listed

Terus, yang mau pake Intel dual core... heuhehuehue.. seperti biasa... as I said, ganti mainboard lagi...

Bring up of Intel's dual core seems to be pretty strong and everything is on track for a release at the end of 2005. We did get confirmation that the dual core CPUs would not work on existing 925X and 915 based motherboards, not without changes to their design. While we would normally be disappointed, the fact of the matter is that very few people bought 925X and 915 based motherboards so it's not too big of a deal.

Intel nggak punya solusi buat ngalahin AMD tahun ini.. Mereka masih puas atas penjualan centrino. Nggak tau dia ada Turion

We also asked Intel if they had any tricks up their sleeve for regaining the definitive performance crown this year - unfortunately their answer was no. It appears that a lot of upper management at Intel is a bit astounded by the success of Centrino, noting that it is a full blown success achieved on features and a full platform and not purely performance. There's also this idea that performance right now is good enough for most desktop users, and fighting over a handful of percentage points that won't be appreciated is a silly battle to win. So for the near future at least, it seems like what we've published in previous Intel roadmaps is all we're going to see from them. What remains to be seen is if AMD will be able to continue to convert Intel's lack of focus on absolute performance leadership into marketshare for AMD.

Terus, mengenai Intel Sonoma

Sonoma incorporates the following:

- Intel's Alviso chipset (mobile 915 chipset)
- 533MHz FSB Pentium-M processors

With the new chipset comes improved integrated graphics (thanks to the 915G's integrated graphics core), dual channel DDR1/DDR2 support, 533MHz FSB support, PCI Express support and HD Audio support.

The chipset offers both PCI Express x16 and x1 support for graphics and peripherals, identical to the desktop 915.

Terus, AMD, socket 939 dual core akan dijual dengan harga $700. Bisa langsung pakai.

We did get a bit of information about AMD's dual core - the first Socket-939 dual core Athlon 64 processors will be priced at $700 when they are released later this year, so start saving up.

BTX, Intel sendiri nggak sebut sebut..

A Single BTX Motherboard

Despite the perfect fit the BTX form factor (especially its pico and micro versions) would be for convergence PCs, at this point Intel is basically not pushing BTX at all. You couldn't even find mention of the acronym BTX anywhere in Intel's booth.

We saw a single BTX motherboard on display at the show and it was in ASUS' suite:

The P5G6M is a Micro BTX solution based on Intel's 915G chipset, however ASUS stated that they won't bring it to market until they have a customer for it - which they presently do not.

Most motherboard (and case) manufacturers we talked to had no plans to bring BTX solutions to market anytime soon. The motherboard manufacturers indicated that the next generation of Intel chipsets, Lakeport and Glenwood, may have more BTX designs, but for now don't expect BTX to be present at all.

[Magician]

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PART 2 - http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2319

Gilaaaaa.. Fatality bakal dijual lebih dari $300... Abit kuya nggak punya otak...

Abit lists 3 different versions of the AN8: the base AN8, based on the nF4 Ultra chipset; the Fatal1ty AN8, based on the same nF4 ultra chipset, but geared toward top gaming with a price of over $300; and, an AN8 SLI. The only board at CES was the Fatal1ty AN8. Abit tells us that the SLI version is slated for later this year.

Terus, di masih di nForce4, heuheuuhee ternyata udah ada A64 s939 dual core yang running without modification... (kayaknya gue denger Hibiki ketawa ngakak ne ) bahkan tanpa BIOS update sama sekali.

ASUS
Although there were only a few new products at ASUS, they were very excited to announce to us that they are working on a dual socket 940 solution to finally give MSI's Master series a run for its money.

AMD's dual core socket 939 processors were also running in a back room on ASUS' A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboards - without modification. Although we had known for some time that dual core would only require a BIOS update on AMD motherboards (at worst), the knowledge that off-the-shelf motherboards running AMD's newest gave us a further boost of confidence for the future. This is also in stark contrast to Anand's report that Intel dual-core will not run on current 915/925 chipset motherboards.

Terus VIA SLI nggak pake bridge, dan bisa dicombine antar VGA. Hueuhhee.

VIA "SLI"
VIA was also demonstrating a working machine with their version of dual video cards. The VIA solution is a bit different in that there is no bridge chip, slot 2 is x4, and any two video cards can be combined. VIA had combined an ATI X800 XT and an X300 in their dual graphics machine, but we did not have an opportunity to see benchmarks of the video performance.

[oqy77]

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topsss... well that's good news at least.

BTW, ada kabar terbaru ttg intel's P5-64bit integated ?

trus ... hueehhuee ... mobo gw sanggup buat dual-core gak ya ? kalo nggak .... kudu beli mobo baru ... !@#$%%#$!!! hHmm... tungguin abit an8 fatalitynya ajahh dehh kalo gitu....

[Magician]

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Ada.. buka aja yang part1. Dia demo up and running, tapi nggak ngerti, cuman nampilih gambar digicam doang kelihatannya