AMD silently launches Dual-Core Optimiser The predecessor of Reverse-HT available for downloadBy Theo Valich: Monday 03 July 2006, 18:17 A SLOVAKIAN FRIEND sent us a link to an AMD web site where a new utility can be found and downloaded. It is the first improvement to Chimpzilla's dual-core offerings of a bundle, so expect a lot of software and BIOS updates coming in July.Intended for all owners of dual-core processors, AMD Dual-Core Optimizer is a piece of software that allegedly improves gaming performance by bypassing Windows' API in some specific situations.This utility helps that software access the RDTSC instruction directly, in order to correct the Time Stamp Counter on separate cores. It effectively keeps both cores working in parallel and reduces the differing video performance effects, or any other flaws that relate to timing situations in dual-core or upcoming multicore processors.You can find and download the utility using our complementary L'Inq.L'InqChimp maker <-- click here
Reverse Hyperthreading does not exist Great inventionBy Fuad Abazovic: Monday 10 July 2006, 11:34 APOLOGIES to the fanbois, but I am about to kill some nice AMD dreams. Reverse Hyperthreading does not exist. It's one of the bigger loads of bluff and bluster cooked up in a long time. AMD doesn't have any such technology. It would like to have it but even the upcoming K8L quad core won't be able to present a dual or quad core as a single core to the Operating system. On the other hand AMD doesn’t not need such a marchitecture as the operating systems are getting used to a dual and later quad machines. It's just a dream that someone set afloat but AMD doesn't have such a marchitecture. However, AMD should weather the Conroe storm but it is about to lose the performance crown for a whole quarter at least. Its response, K8L won't be ready before Q2 2007. µ * Apologies, too, for calling HyperThreading HyperTransport earlier. Must've been HyperVentilating.
