AMD FX-9370

[Beskamir]

So I was checking Memory Express's new arrivals as I often due and I happened to see this: http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX46698 what made me really laugh is "AMD FX-93xx Series Processors are Faster and Hotter Than Ever!"

 

Anyways if MemoryExpress has them it's confirmed for me that they will be avaliable for DIY system builders. Just much like 2011, they won't include stock heatsinks so if you want one you will have to buy a seperate one.

[TechFan@ic]

 "AMD FX-93xx Series Processors are Faster and Hotter Than Ever!"

Hahah, marvelous !

[CobaltMK33]

I was reading the the article type deal there, and they said it had 8 physical cores. If I'm not mistaken, isn't that technically not how the PileDriver architecture is set up? I guess I should know being an 8320 owner haha

[Nort]

I was reading the the article type deal there, and they said it had 8 physical cores. If I'm not mistaken, isn't that technically not how the PileDriver architecture is set up? I guess I should know being an 8320 owner haha

 

From what I've gathered it has 8 cores, but some resources are shared between them. That's why people say it is not a true 8 core.

[TechFan@ic]

I was reading the the article type deal there, and they said it had 8 physical cores. If I'm not mistaken, isn't that technically not how the PileDriver architecture is set up? I guess I should know being an 8320 owner haha

It does have 8 physical integer cores, every two in a module, along with a floating point unit and a decoder.

[FireFox]

From what I've gathered it has 8 cores, but some resources are shared between them. That's why people say it is not a true 8 core.

 

But why was it advertised as the 'first 8 core desktop CPU' or some crap if it's not a real 8 core, I'm confused (though it wouldn't be the first time).

[NannerBeans]

But why was it advertised as the 'first 8 core desktop CPU' or some crap if it's not a real 8 core, I'm confused (though it wouldn't be the first time).

 

It has 8 physical cores so they can call it an 8 core CPU even though it can be argued that it isn't a true 8 core. It is similar to how T-mobile in the US marketed a while back that they had 4G when they really only had HSPA+ which isn't true 4G.