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The
Chip :::...
One
thing we've probably noy devoted enough attention
to is the new packaging. I'm not sure they'll thank
me for saying it but every previous AMD CPU up to
and including Barton was at serious risk of damage
to the relatively fragile core, a situation made worse
by what is a fairly primitive heatsink retention design.
No
such problems with any of the Athlon64 range of CPUs
though. They now come equipped with a copper heat-spreader
over the fragile core which, coupled with the new
retention mechanism, makes it almost impossible to
do any serious damage from being careless.
The
The 940-pin ceramic µPGA package really packs
those pins in though it's fair to say they're no easier
to damage tham earlier AMD processors with a lower
pin count.
Behind
the shiny heat spreader the core remains unchanged.
1.5volts drive the 193 square mm core to a frequency
of 2.4GHz in exchange for a thermal power of 89watts.
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