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Written by fury
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Monday, 27 June 2005 |
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The AMD Athlon 64 Socket 939 CPU
Getting on with the central processing unit or CPU as effectionately known, this is the power plant that will power our DFI LANParty nF4 SLI-DR. This is the AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Winchester core). The AMD Athlon 64 is capable of features like 3DNow!™ Professional technology and support for SSE2. Both 32- and 64-bit applications can run simultaneously and transparently on the same platform. Our Athlon 64, will be running at 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3500+ under default settings. The CPU is based on the Winchester S939 core clocked with a D0 stepping. The multiplier can be set to run from 4x to 11x and runs at 11x at default. 68.5 million transistors are under the hood, along with 512KB L2 Cache, based on the 90 nm, 11Mi,CMOS, Cu, SOI process. Maximum power consumption comes in at approximately 67.0 Watts under full load.
As you can see, this Athlon64 3500+ is based on the "CBBFD" core and was built in week 41 of 2004. Has a PR rating of 3500+ and should provide plenty of horse power for our test rig. We will give you generalized processor specifications to speed up the process and get us to the testing phase.
Let's take a look at this CPU.
Processor:
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AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Winchester
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2.2GHz Clock Speed
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128KB/512KB L1/L2 Cache
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HyperTransport Technology
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AMD64 Technology
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Integrated Memory Controller
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Enhanced Virus Protection
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Socket 939
The AMD64 core provides leading-edge 32-bit & 64-bit performance
- AMD64 technology provides full speed support for x86 code base for uncompromising 32-bit performance, with readiness for 64-bit applications
- 40-bit physical addresses, 48-bit virtual addresses
- Eight new (sixteen total) 64-bit integer registers
- Eight new (sixteen total) 128-bit SSE/SSE2 registers
- Including support for 3DNow!™ Professional technology and SSE2
A high-bandwidth, low-latency integrated DDR memory controller
- Supports PC3200, PC2700, PC2100 or PC1600 DDR SDRAM
- Unbuffered DIMMs
- 72-bit DDR SDRAM memory (64-bit interface + 8-bit ECC)
- Up to 6.4 GB/s memory bandwidth
- ECC protection enables increased system reliability
HyperTransport™ technology for high speed I/O communication
- One 16-bit link up to 2000MHz
- Up to 8GB/s HyperTransport™ I/O bandwidth
- Up to 14.4GB/s total delivered processor-to-system bandwidth
Large high performance on-chip cache
- 64KB Level 1 instruction cache
- 64KB Level 1 data cache
- Up to 1MB Level 2 cache
- Improved branch prediction for greater accuracy in anticipating instruction calls
- Enhanced TLB structures for better memory management of complex workloads
This CPU is a retail box package, complete with factory heat sink and fan assembly along with the Athlon 64 3500+ CPU. We went retail so we could utilize the factory cooling system included in the retail box, for our burn in period that we will induce to the CPU and motherboard for 72 hours. Once we burn in the system we have several other cooling options available to us.
Other Specifications
Package Type: 939 Pin uOPGA
Package Size: 4.00cm x 4.00cm
Revision: DH8-D0
Code Name: Winchester
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