AMDZone posted a link to hkepc.com's 90nm Athlon 64 3500+ review. According to that review, the new 90nm Winchester core runs hotter than the old 130nm Newcastle.

The temperatures (90nm/130nm):
idle: 41.6C / 37.2C
20min of 3dmark03: 62.2C / 57.8C
20min of cpuburn: 67.4C / 62.7C

1) Tomshardware has a little blurb on the new 3000+ mobile: http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20040920_183106.html Is that 12W they quote?! There must be a mistake. The old low-power models have got a TDP of 35W, just like the new model too . The old models have got a TDP of 12W at 800MHz , in t...

I did some testing with a 3700+ I just installed. It is performing quite nicely: 2GHz@1,15V I haven't worked out the heat dissipation, but I noticed it runs at the same voltage as the Opteron EE (although at higher frequency). According to my calculations, the thermal design power of 3700+ at 2GHz/...

Just out of curiosity, what are the other P-states for other AMD processors? I'm just wondering if it's possible to go a lot lower and still have it be valid/verified. For Athlon 64, Sempron and some Athlon XP-M's that information is available here. The coolest P-state in the new CG-core Athlon 64'...

I don't mean to be a dick here, but how do you know that it's an official supported P-state? I don't. I have requested that information from AMD, but I haven't received a reply yet. Until then, we can't know it for sure. But, all the other 2.4GHz models have that P-state (except the FX which has di...

mki :I don't get your point. You're just talking about regular underclocking and undervolting! Nothing new. I'm against running the hardware out of specifications. I'm not explaining the normal underclocking/undervolting here, but a completely supported way to run the CPU. That 1.8GHz/1.2V P-state ...

In this thread you can read about the power consumption (and my optimistic dreams about my next system..). If my "34% reduction" calculation in that thread is correct, the thermal design power of a 90nm Athlon 64 could be something like: 89W * 0.66 = 58.74W That ~59W is the maximum, not necessarily...

AMD has released a new low power Mobile Athlon 64: 3000+. Here is some information on it. The new 3000+ model is made with 90nm SOI process. It's a 2GHz processor with 512kB cache. Heat dissipation is the same 35W as with earlier low power models. The current best 130nm Athlon 64 with 512kB cache (A...

If you visit this page: http://www.uli.com.tw/m1689.php and scroll down to the features part, you'll see that it explicitly states it supports Mobile Athlon 64 processors! ...hmmm. Some of the laptops running Mobile Athlon 64 processors use VIA K8T800 chipset, so that chipset supports mobile proces...

Disclaimer: I haven't tested this, but I hope someone will. :) I've read that many people have had problems running the Mobile Athlon 64's in desktop motherboards. So, why not buy a faster desktop model and run it underclocked and undervolted instead? Now there is an Athlon 64 3400+ with a 2.4GHz N...

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ and 3200+ for socket 939 will soon be available, using 90 nm technology and the new D0 revision. They cost 173 and 208 USD respectively at monarchcomputer.com . This should give us cheaper 939 systems with lower power consumption (~50 W?). I don't care much about dual channel me...

I want to say Intel's limit is still 450g and AMD's 300g, even on the newer sockets, but I can't say for sure. 300g is the maximum for socket A, but not for AMD's newer sockets. AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Opteron Processors Thermal Design Guide specifies that the cooler on socket 754/939/940 must not be...

AMD has published a new revision of Athlon 64 power and thermal data sheet . It now includes Sempron and mobile Sempron specifications. There are also specs for Athlon XP-M for socket754. The mobile Semprons look interesting. The low-power models give out max. 25W of heat @1.6GHz and 9W @800MHz. It ...

Be aware that not all LCD/TFT units are silents. The most suspect ones are units that have the power brick built into the display stand (quite rare). Some others have known to make noise as well. That's right. My LG 575LM has on external power supply. The power supply makes some noise, but it can't...

I have experienced linux servers with several month uptimes that 1. dont run ecc 2. have at least 512 MB ram 3. are busy serving files and apps This whole ecc and parity thing is overblown. Dont blame windows problems on RAM. Hell we have win2k boxes in the lab without ecc that are up for weeks. Th...

Are any out there using a monitor that is silent? I'm using an old Magitronic 17' which is now the source of the most noise, and as it's about 7 years old perhaps it's time for a change. Any help apreciated. Get an LCD display. A while ago I had a Sony G400P 19" Trinitron tube and it was the bigges...

If memory errors are indeed this common, i will almost certainly switch to ECC. Memory errors are not very common, but you can be 100% sure that they happen. Even with perfect memory chips, so called soft errors can flip bits in your computer's memory. It's just a matter of time. The more memory yo...

Memory errors are not very common at all. As ralph suggests please ignore that article at AT. Its crap that somehow slipped through the cracks. I've run dozens of systems with memtest86 for days (known good RAM) and I didnt get any errors. 250 Watt uATX Enhance PSU and a 2.0 GHz Northwood with 4 32...