/g/ Histroy lessons:Athlon 64 2x

>>60369677
i think they were core-unlockable. please check full specs if you can unlock cores, it would be great.

>>60369677
The Athlon XP, 64, and the early 64x2's were big deals because they ran circles around their Intel counterparts. When Intel released the Core 2 Duo in '06 it was all over for AMD and they haven't recovered since.
>>60369766
No, the unlockable cores were with the Athlon II and Phenom II. You could unlock any triple-core and some dual-cores into a quad if you had a motherboard that supported it.

>>60369677
they were THE BEST at the time. Intel went down to barely over half the market share and they had been bankrupt and finished hadn't they used jewish tricks to get OEMs to sell their crappy, overpriced junk.

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>>60369677
>>60369834
Yeah, they were awesome.

Had socket 939 from 2005 to late 2009 with a Opteron 175 running 3.2ghz on water. Pic related.

Too bad they killed socket 939 so soon for am2, whould have been awsome running a quadcore on 939.

On a sidenote, AMD really lost out on alot of marketshare with the k8 arcitecture, as they weren't ready for the huge demand it created and couldn't deliver nearly enough.
So many big server and buisness customers had to buy Pentium4 instead.

Looks like history will repeat itself sadly..

>>60369677
That and the phenom 2 were top chips at the time

Then things went badly wrong. AMD are in a good place right now with mid market appeal.

I really dont think they will be able to beat the kaby Pentiums low end. Ryzen got intel on edge.