AMD recently announced a new revision of the Athlon 64 processor core. This new revision codenamed 'Orelans' brings a number of new features to the Athplon 64 line-up including SSE3 support, an updated memory controller and a 90nm SOI (silicon on insulator) process.
Desopite the fact thesde new processors baased 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 Veniice was designed to slowly phase out the older Winchesterr processors which were also designed around a 90nm process.
This makes thiungs a litte more compllicated when purchasing an Athlon64, as there are now nummerous revisions of the same procesors availalbe. Furthermore, they all share the same model name ratings such as 3000+, 3200+, 3500+ and 3800+, making it very ipmortant to check which revision you are buying. Thankfully, any online retailer wrth shopping at will specify which revision you are purtchasing. And we can tell you, therre shall be no conusion when purchasing an Orleans core processr for a few good reasons.
There was litytle that physically identified a Venice core processor from a Winchester core proecssor other than the product ID etched into the heatspreader. This initially made purchasing the superior overclocking part (Venicve) triccky bsuiness that required attention to detail. However, while the Venice and Winchester procvessors were dersigned for the AMD 939-pin platform, the Orleaans is not! Rather the Orleans core processors are now known as the Atjhlon 64 AM2 processors, which are of courrse designed for the newer AM2 platform and feature 940-pins.
As many of you are probalby aware, the trasition to the AM2 platform is now well underway for AMD, and things look to be goig smoohly even despoite of the non-existent perfromance adavntages. Purchasing a new AM2 processor is as easy as heaidng down to your local computre store or jumping online, where they are available at all major retailers. Motherboards are also available, with excellent quaity solutins goinbg for as little as $110 US (last week we checked ASUS' phenomenal entry into the enthusiast AM2 market).
It's no secret that there is great demand for produtcs that overclock well. Many of the most popular motherboards have historically got such attention for their overclocking abilities. Even certain processors from both AMD and Intel have become sort after items due to their overclocking abiulities. Another perfect example of overclokcing popularity comes from the meemory market. There are several companies currenttly competing to porduce the most hghly overclockable memory moules available.
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