[MatthewPapa]

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~95364,00.html

Dual core 64 bit!! Wow
Thats friking crazy.

For those of you too lazy to click on the link....

“With our upcoming AMD64 dual-core processors, AMD yet again will deliver a technology that customers demand and, unlike competing architectures, is doing so in a way that makes it incredibly easy and non-disruptive for them to implement,” said Marty Seyer, corporate vice president and general manager of Microprocessor Business Unit, Computation Products Group, AMD. “Designed from the ground up to support multi-core capability, AMD64 dual-core processors will be uniquely compatible with, and upgradeable from, our single-core processors today. This support from our OS partners underscores the simplicity of migrating to AMD64 dual core.”

[Grey Wolf]

I'm assuming this is the Toledo core? Or would it be one of the Opteron variants (Egypt, Italy, or Denmark)?

[Rictor]

Good god.

I bet the heat that thing gives off could keep my entire house warm. And if more than one of them is hooked up within a 100km radius, the electrical grid goes down.

[vyper]

I suspect that's been taken care of

[Grey Wolf]

They're actually quite low voltage, if I remember correctly.  According to Anandtech, the Toledo core (the desktop variant) has a TDP of about 110W @ 2.4 GHz, which is not much above Clawhammer's 89W (first-gen A64 desktop core).  That's actually roughly equivalent to what Prescott outputs (~115W is the actual output, as opposed to the 103W or so that Intel claims), so although you'll need good air, it's not like you'll need water or anything.