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Biostar M7NCG Motherboard Review at Bjorn3D

Thermaltake launches new trademark — TR2

Some rumours on K9, the next generation of AMD processors



Biostar M7NCG Motherboard Review at Bjorn3D

"This Micro-ATX motherboard has just about everything you need for a basic computer: built-in GeForce4 MX video, sound, network connection, USB 2.0, etc."

Read more at Bjorn3D.

Thermaltake launches new trademark — TR2

Thermaltake informed on creating a new brand — TR2 – for products cheaper than Thermaltake´s usual.

This is mainly about various cooling systems. In other words, all Thermaltake’s products will be divided into 2 segments: mainstream TR2 and higher-end Thermaltake.

TR2 will be initially promoted in North American and European markets. The dedicated TR2 website already features some cooling solutions. All TR2 products will bear the Designed by Thermaltake mark for buyers to correctly identify the maker.

Some rumours on K9, the next generation of AMD processors

You can consider it a fake, as these distant rumours can’t be proved for now. However, if you are still interested, you might want to know of probable technological features of next-generation AMD processors — K9.
  • It seems, K9 will have an integrated DDRII controller
  • Processor will feature speculative branching (up to 8 branches), and probably some rollback cache in case a branch is predicted wrong...
  • Processor will probably have 3 (!) fully-fledged õ87 blocks, 3 SSE2 and 2 ALU blocks. Decoders will be capable of organizing them by three (FPU + SSE2 + ALU) for maximum performance.
  • K9 will possibly utilize AMD’s old patent, describing integrated Peltier element packaging
  • Processor might have several buffers, a kind of L0 cache. For example, a 4Kb buffer will precede and follow FPU for making its operation (SSE2, 3DNow) continuous.
  • Ê9 might also support L3 cache for commented code. I.e. decoder will be capable of acting right in L3 inserting comments into special fields.
  • Pipeline will probably feature 15 ALU stages, 20 FPU stages.
  • I-cache and decoder will perform at double speed.
  • AMD might situate L3 cache on crystal using 1T-SRAM.
  • Hyper Transport II – expected to be something like Octal Data Rate (Yellowstone) with about 1GHz carrier clock. As a result throughput will reach 25Gb/s in 16x16 configuration.
  • Interprocessor protocol (MOESI) will be updated and improved.
  • The very fast bus will provide a very interesting feature of sharing free executive units between two processors. I.e. if the first has FPU loaded and the second has it free, then the latter can handle requests from the decoder of the former.
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