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Codenamed Dunnington, it will include all six cores on the same piece of silicon. That’s in contrast to Intel’s quad-core processors, which are split across two separate dies.

The Xeon 7400 Series, to give Dunnington its official title, will sport 16MB of shared level 3 cache and will be backwards compatible with the Xeon 7300 socket.

Intel is pitching the Xeon 7400 as the “virtualisation platform of choice”. It’s expected to give Intel the performance edge over AMD’s “Barcelona” Opteron processors, which have four cores on the same die.

Dunnington will be the last of the Penryn design processors, before the company moves to its Nehalem architecture later this year, which will adopt the company’s new Core i7 branding.

These new processors are:

• 2.4-GHz Phenom X4 9750B Quad-Core
• 2.4-GHz Phenom X3 8750B Triple-Core
• 2.9-GHz Athlon X2 5600B Dual-Core
• 2.5-GHz Athlon X2 4850B Dual-Core

There was no news on price or exactly when these new chips will start tipping up in our business class PCs, but it can’t be far away.

By introduce a new processors to desktop market, AMD hope most of the customer choose AMD instead of other competitor.

Here are the price cuts and please note that those are official Intel prices, actual prices will eventually reach those prices than they will be lower than that.

Q6600 From $224 to $193, which is a 13.84% cut.
E8500 From $266 to $183, which is a 31.20% cut
E8400 From $183 to $163, which is a 10.93% cut
E7200 From $133 to $113, which is a 15.04% cut

Q9650, at 3.00Ghz, 12MB cache, 1333Mhz FSB at $530
Q9400, at 2.66Ghz, 6MB cache, 1333Mhz FSB at $266.
E8600, at 3.33Ghz, 6MB cache, 1333Mhz FSB at $266
E7300, at 2.66Ghz, 3MB cache, 800Mhz FSB at 133$

Of course, what’s even better, is to see how fast those price cuts are passed on to you, unlike oil price cuts.

Go to AMD website, download the AMD Processor Utilities and Updates.

AMD Opteron™ Cpufreq Driver for Linux 2.10.00 – Allows the system to automatically adjust the CPU frequency, voltage and power combination that match the instantaneous user performance need. Supports all AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile Technology, AMD Opteron™ Processors, and Athlon™ 64 Processors released through 2007. Provides support for AMD PowerNow!™ technology and, where appropriate, AMD’s Cool-n-Quiet™ technology for Linux systems. Works with all kernels, version 2.6.10 or later. Requires the ondemand kernel module or the cpufreq-1.20, cpuspeed-1.20.1, or powersaved-0.8.19 or later user programs to support SMP and multi-core systems. This driver is already included in the 2.6.18 or later kernels and does not need to be downloaded again.

AMD Virtualization™ Technology and Microsoft® Hyper-V™ System Compatibility Check Utility – This utility checks your system’s capabilities to facilitate testing of Microsoft Hyper-V on platforms with AMD microprocessors. To use this utility: Download and unzip AMD-V_Hyper-V_Compatibility_Check_Utility.zip. Change to the directory where the files were extracted to and click on amdhyperv.exe. On Windows Vista™ or Windows Server® 2008, you need to run the application with elevated privilege, so right click the .exe and select run as administrator. Note: the .sys files must be in the same directory as the .exe file.

Machine Check Analysis Tool (MCAT) – Machine Check Analysis Tool (MCAT) is a command line utility that takes a Windows System Event Log (.evt) file as an argument and decodes the MCA Error logs into human readable format. MCAT can alternatively take as an argument the raw register hexadecimal values from an MCE Error.

AMD Clock Version 2.0.1 – AMDClock shows the current speed of each core of each AMD processor in a system. The user has the ability to choose to run the application on top of all other applications and to select the refresh rate for reporting the speeds.

AMD Power Monitor Version 1.2.0 – AMD Power Monitor displays the current frequency, voltage, utilization, and power savings of each core on each processor in a system. This version of AMD Power Monitor supports systems with Athlon™ FX, mobile AMD Athlon™, AMD Athlon™ X2, AMD Turion™ 64, AMD Turion™ 64 X2, AMD Sempron™, mobile AMD Sempron™, AMD Phenom™, AMD Opteron™, and AMD Opteron™ Third-Generation processors.

AMD Power Monitor Linux Version – RHEL 4 32 bits – This application is used to monitor the current frequency, voltage, utilization, and power savings of each core of each processor in a system. This application also has a system tray icon that can be used to view and select power schemes on the system. The system tray icon will show the average utilization of every core on the system.

AMD Power Monitor Linux Version – RHEL 4 64 bits – This application is used to monitor the current frequency, voltage, utilization, and power savings of each core of each processor in a system. This application also has a system tray icon that can be used to view and select power schemes on the system. The system tray icon will show the average utilization of every core on the system.

AMD Power Monitor Linux Version – SLES 9 32 bits – This application is used to monitor the current frequency, voltage, utilization, and power savings of each core of each processor in a system. This application also has a system tray icon that can be used to view and select power schemes on the system. The system tray icon will show the average utilization of every core on the system.

AMD Power Monitor Linux Version – SLES 9 64 bits – This application is used to monitor the current frequency, voltage, utilization, and power savings of each core of each processor in a system. This application also has a system tray icon that can be used to view and select power schemes on the system. The system tray icon will show the average utilization of every core on the system.

AMD Power Monitor Linux Version – SuSE Linux 10 64 bits (32 not supported due to a kernel bug) – This application is used to monitor the current frequency, voltage, utilization, and power savings of each core of each processor in a system. This application also has a system tray icon that can be used to view and select power schemes on the system. The system tray icon will show the average utilization of every core on the system.

AMD Processor Driver Version 1.3.2.0053 for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (x86 and x64) – Allows the system to automatically adjust the CPU speed, voltage and power combination to match the instantaneous user performance need. This package is a user friendly localized software installation of the driver designed for end-users. This driver supports AMD processors on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP2 x86 and x64 Editions.

AMD CPUID – This utility displays the processor signature, approximate speed, L1/L2 cache sizes, processor revision, and instruction extensions supported.

AMD CPUInfo Version 2.1.1 – This Windows® application executes and displays the return data from the CPUID instruction set and displays HyperTransport™ technology information if the processor supports it. This application also shows the maximum speed of the processor.

Download here.