AMD Enthusiast Platform

[Heinz68]

VR-ZONE (http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-leo-2010-platform--enthusiasts-dream-setup-/7537.html?doc=7537) September 1, 2009
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AMD Leo 2010 Platform - Enthusiasts' Dream Setup?

AMD plans to transit from the current Dragon AM3 platform to Leo platform in April 2010. The new platform is made up of a slew of faster 45nm multi-core AM3 CPUs to be released next year coupled with the new AMD 890FX/GX + SB850 chipsets as well as the DX11 graphics cards; Helmlock and Cypress (Radeon HD 5800 series). The new chipsets gonna sport several key features like improved Crossfire performance, ATI Stream and OpenCL support, next gen. Hybrid Crossfire, enhanced overclocking through AMD Fusion II with OverDrive and Black Edition memory profiles. Other neat features include the support for SATA 6Gbps, USB 3.0, Integrated Broadcom MAC, FIS based switching.

[LydianKnight]

Even if the picture is rather small I can clearly see 'Phenom II' in the processors, which is quite odd because if we take the picture in a literal way, that's telling you the Leo platform will have 2 separate memory links and 2 processor sockets?

Looks a bit weird to me, haven't ever seen any motherboard or system configuration with support for two phenoms, unless this is kind of an evolutionary step from the disasterous 4x4 platform...

Would be interesting, tough...

[Heinz68]

I replaced the picture with larger one and it looks like the picture shows 2 different systems. One with Phenom II x3 and the other with Phenom II X4.

[josiahsuarez]

maybe it's a new feature: combine X3 with X4 for a septa core system! (nana2)