The AMD(Advanced Micro Devices) launch of motherboard(AMD’s Quad FX Platform) with four cores, targeting gaming enthusiasts in an effort to keep pace with the release of quad-core chips by rival Intel, has started a debate over chip industry on the design of a True Quad core.This motherboard is a complete heaven for gamers.It includes includes two dual-core Athlon 64 FX-70 series chips and uses Nvidia’s 680a chip set.Its aimed at gamers, multitaskers — and Intel’s quad-core designs.

Now you must be thinking a talked a lot about what AMD has newly launched but am i going out of the topic..No.Now you got what amd has done lets talk is it really a quad.?

What is a real quad ?

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A basic Quad core runs on the principles that says all the cores has to work together.Like Intel’s Qaud architecture it has 2 di processors running in synchronization which solves the purpose if any of the bi fails.This motherboard of AMD is not a true quad.It has 2 di processors running together to give the same effect. It has four processing cores; they just don’t live together. But Advanced Micro Devices is betting that hard-core gamers won’t care about the architecture used to build its new Quad FX Platform.Intel has claimed to be the winner in the quad-core race on Nov. 14 by packaging two dual-core chips together in the Xeon 5300 for servers and Core 2 Extreme QX6700 for gamers. I already posted 3 posts on that you can read it

• Intel-quad-processor-analysis-series,
• Intel-quad-processor-technology-inside,
• Intel-quad-processor-hardware-software-suite

How applications are now memory eaters?

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A desktop with four computing cores can be a workstation for mega memory eaters and programs which make your hard disk lights keep blinking for hrs when you boot up.Users who don’t have time and want to do a lot of things simultaneously…this is a good.Watch high-definition video while burning a DVD, downloading a bit torrent file, and chatting on a team speak connection, even as their PC runs anti virus software, Skype, and instant messaging applications in the background.

AMD’s Quad FX Platform

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However, because the AMD’s Quad FX Platform uses two sockets, only the Ultimate version of Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system will be able to take advantage of the second dual-core processor. All other versions of Vista will work on the platform, but won’t be able to recognize the second processor. When AMD does introduce quad-core chips designed to fit into a single socket, they will fit into the same motherboard used to build the Quad FX Platform.

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