Apple to use AMD Barcelona and nforce pro

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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
Amd new chip will be 60% to 80% faster and use lower cost ddr2 with more pci-e lanes then intel chip sets.

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  • Reply 1 of 6
    irelandireland Posts: 17,798member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by bugmenot View Post


    Amd new chip will be 60% to 80% faster and use lower cost ddr2 with more pci-e lanes then intel chip sets.



    intels 45nM road map is about 5 or 6 months ahead of AMD's or IBM's.
  • Reply 2 of 6
    joe_the_dragonjoe_the_dragon Posts: 931member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ireland View Post


    intels 45nM road map is about 5 or 6 months ahead of AMD's or IBM's.



    but they still way behind amd in the chip set to cpu and cpu to cpu link.
  • Reply 3 of 6
    shanmugamshanmugam Posts: 1,200member
    any source? or just rumor?
  • Reply 4 of 6
    onlookeronlooker Posts: 5,252member
    Sounds like a big whopping tale of BS to me.
  • Reply 5 of 6
    onlookeronlooker Posts: 5,252member
    The Nforce Pro is a stellar motherboard none the less.

    Quote:

    Ideal Home Content Creation Platform

    Hardware support for up to 4 single graphics cards and up to 8 independent displays (for the extreme multimedia enthusiast)

    Designed for AMD multi-core CPUs



    Massive Media Storage

    Supports up to 12 SATA 3Gbps hard drives for scalable storage

    NVIDIA MediaShield™ software safeguards your most important digital media assets



    High-Performance Gaming

    Designed for NVIDIA SLI™ technology

    Additional hardware support for Quad SLI and GPU Physics

    Supports SLI Memory for superior memory overclockability and enhanced system performance



    Prioritized Networking and Connectivity

    Support for 4 Gigabit Ethernet Connections

    Optimized with NVIDIA FirstPacket™ technology



    But I highly doubt it will be coming to a Mac near you - ever.



    We'll see what Apple has soon enough.
  • Reply 6 of 6
    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    Dude, AI's got a non-banned bugmenot account.
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