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Issues With AMD's Barcelona?
Posted by Regeneration on August 13th, 2007, 08:57 AM

It seems that we are learning a little more about AMD’s upcoming Barcelona cores week after week as the launch date nears. A couple of days ago we learned that Barcelona will be launched on September 10. Today we learned that Barcelona’s full power-saving features will not function unless users get a new BIOS update and a supported motherboard. It might mean buying a whole new mobo for those who want to take full advantage of Barcelona’s features.

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Damn and I just have a new motherboard for AM2, thought it was going to be same socket. Upgrade again I guess
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same socket but ... not the same
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Thats why I have found it is best to wait when brand new things come onto the market !!
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Yes a new bios update on a supported motherboard! You don't know which yet but I'm willing to bet mine's not off the list.
Keywords: Fear Uncertainty Doubt
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I'm afraid Unixlord is right, this is nothing but FUD. Issues?? I don't see any, almost every motherboard requires BIOS update to add microcode update for new CPUs.

Nothing to see here, move along.
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AM2 supports Barcelona, but some features will be unavailable, and the HTT will be limited to 1ghz

AM2+ will support full features and the HTT will run at the full speed of 3ghz
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