AMD formally presented its new platform for desktop PCs, code-named AMD Spider. Last week, we have already submitted our readers theoretical and practical possibilities of one of the key components of the platform - video cards, article AMD Radeon HD 3800 Series. Testing "Junior" - HD3850. Today, eventually, the time had come to lift the shroud of secrecy with the remaining components of the platform Spider - AMD Phenom line of processors and AMD chipset family of 7-Series.

Our story on new components for desktop PCs from AMD will be divided into two logical parts. The fact is that last week, the presentation platform Spider company AMD held a special conference in Warsaw, where he witnessed 3DNews correspondent. So today we will confine ourselves to, so to speak, "theoretical" part - the general characteristics of the new platform, a story about architecture, new components, declared parameters and prices. Later, another will be published material including "reportage from the place of events", as well as the results of the first practical test platform AMD Spider. Deployed testing will be presented later, when all the components of AMD Spider will be available in test labs 3DNews.

Introducing the attention of the general public the new technology, AMD focuses on the platform that is the nature of innovation. A key component of the platform Spider multicore processors are AMD Phenom (until 4 - nuclear) performed with the observance of the norms of 65 nm and technological process designed to work with systemic Boards fitted with a connector Socket AM2 +. In addition, the platform is a new generation of Spider AMD chipset 7 Series for the creation of motherboards supporting technologies CrossFireX and AMD OverDrive, and the family schedule ATI Radeon HD 3800 with the support of Microsoft DirectX 10.1.

If push towards redundancy press releases, the main innovations implemented in AMD Spider platform, is the significant increase in setting performance at Watts, mainly through energy-efficient design of 65 nm processors AMD Phenom, 65 nm AMD chipset 7 -- Series and 55 nm graphics chip family ATI Radeon HD 3800. At the same time, AMD Spider platform has the support of a number of specific energy-saving technologies: ATI PowerPlay, Cool'n'Quiet 2.0, Microsoft DirectX 10.1, HyperTransport 3.0 and PCI Express 2.0. In particular, 2.0 Cool'n'Quiet technology helps to reduce power consumption processor AMD Phenom with TDP 95 W, 32 W to medium to medium-sized domestic and 29 W for commercial applications. At the same time, AMD CoolCore technology, implemented in AMD chipset 7-Series, provides the processor cores at different frequencies and, consequently, lower energy consumption, the chipset TDP averages around 10-12 W.

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Another innovation platform AMD Spider - much of its scalability, and unprecedented for solutions based on AMD processors. For example, motherboards based on AMD chipset 7-Series, thanks to technology, and ATI CrossFireX support up to 42 lines of PCI Express, have an opportunity to work with three or four graphics card ATI Radeon HD 3800.

It is generally assumed that AMD Spider platform in the future will be the basis of a wide range of systems, AMD LIVE! -- desktop and laptop PCs, home servers and digital family entertainment centers, etc. One of the main marketing ideas, which filed AMD Spider platform is the full support of HD video.