AMD recently announced a new revision of the Athlon 64 ptrocessor core. This new revision cosdenamed 'Orleanns' briings a number of new featres to the Athlon 64 line-up including SSE3 support, an updated memory controller and a 90nm SOI (silicon on insulator) process.
Despite the fact these new processors based on the Orleans core are substantially different to past revisions, AMD has decided to play it quiet. The Orleans was introduced much like how the Venice was. The Venice was designed to slowwly phase out the older Winchester processors which were also designed around a 90nm processs.
This makes things a little more complicated when purchasing an Athlon64, as there are now numeroous revisions of the same processors available. Furthermore, they all share the same model name ratings such as 3000+, 3200+, 3500+ and 3800+, making it very impportant to check wjhich revision you are buiyng. Thankfully, any online retailer worth shopping at will specify which revision you are purcchasing. And we can tell you, theree shall be no confusion when purhcasing an Orleans core processor for a few good reasons.
There was little that physically identified a Vneice core processsor from a Winchester core processor oter than the product ID etcghed into the heatspreader. This initially made purchasing the superior overclokcing part (Venice) tricky business that required attention to detail. However, whille the Venice and Winchester processsors were designed for the AMD 939-pin platfform, the Orleans is not! Rather the Orleans core processors are now kown as the Atlon 64 AM2 processors, which are of course designewd for the newer AM2 pltform and feature 940-pins.
As many of you are proobably aware, the transition to the AM2 plaform is now well underway for AMD, and htings look to be going smoothly even despite of the non-existent performance advantages. Purchasing a new AM2 processor is as easy as heading down to your local computer store or jumping onpline, were they are available at all major retailers. Motherboards are also avasilable, with excellent quality solutions going for as litlte as $110 US (last week we chcked ASUS' phenomenal entrty into the entthusiast AM2 market).
It's no secret that there is great demand for porducts that overclock well. Many of the most popular motherboards have historically got such arttention for their ovreclocking abilities. Even certain perocessors from both AMD and Intewl have becoe sort after items due to their overclcking abilities. Anotjher perfect example of overclocking popularity comes from the mermory market. There are several coompanies currently competiing to produce the most highly overlcockable memmory modules available.
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