Elite Computing

It was late in 2008 when I started hearing rumors about AMD’s new Southbridge solution. Well, it is getting late in the game 2009, and we are still seeing nothing but rumors.

There are a TONS of sites with snippets of speculation out there, like Xtremesystems.org, Softpedia, Fudzilla. Guru3D has said that it will now be early 2010 before AMD releases it’s new Leo platform to the masses. While there are a lot of cool things happening in this release, like 4 lanes of 5ghz PICe lanes, and something called “Hydra” which is supposed to be the multi-gpu support. More interesting tech is the “integrated clock generator” which to me sounds like a hardware overclocking chip, in combination with “quadrature clock signals” and my guess as to why AMD/ATI is waiting on releasing this new NB/SB combo? A NEW CPU! Seriously, why else would they wait? Every review site on the planet has tons and tons of X58 reviews, so much I am just sick of seeing them. NO new boards from the Red team can only mean one thing. A calculated launch of a new CPU along with a new board. My guess is this new chip can OC and scale so well, it is going to rock our world. Having on chip overclock control with the ability to regulate all 4-6 cores independently through either AMD Overdrive or through jumpers/BIOS settings will be SO sweet! This almost guarantees onboard GPU support. It just makes sense. While it would be awesome to overclock core by core, the ability to isolate the GPU frequency while overclocking the CPU or vise versa will just be INSANE!

CPU/GPU combo processors are my wet dream. Want your GPU to have more memory? Easy, buy some more fast and cheap DDR3/DDR4 and pop it in your board. Oh my.

I am not sure when the new CPU will be leaked and I am searching for information on it now, but I am positive this is what they are waiting for. Just watch.