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 Just when AMD starts firing on all cylinders (Series 7 chipsets, PCIe 2.0, Radeon HD3xxx), a nasty issue pokes its head out of the woodwork. AMD discovered their Phenom 9700 2.4ghz CPU's have an issue with TLB errata that is related to the L3 protocol. When running certain client workloads, this errata can cause platform independant system hangs. Without the microcode update advantages of the Intel microarchitecture, AMD is forced to release BIOS updates for existing Phenom platforms. Until this errata is corrected, Phenom 9700's will be removed from the shelves. The Inquirer Reports... "AMD WILL ONLY LAUNCH the Phenom 9500 and 9600. Even though the channel already got its hands on the Phenom 9700 (2.4 GHz) part, it will have to be pulled off from the shelves. In a weird deja-vu, it turns out that the company found an errata in the TLB (Transition Lookaside Buffer), just like Intel did earlier this year with complete Core marchitecture. However, unlike Intel, that has a micro-code update function in all of its CPUs, AMD is forced to delay the introduction of the part. This comes as a huge hit to AMD, at the time that evrything was looking somewhat better. On paper and in practice, its Chipsets Series 7 are world's finest at the moment - PCIe Gen2 implementation is near-perfect, old Athlon 64 X2 parts got a new life on them (insane HyperTransport overclocking options), while Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 are once again sparking a huge war in world of 3D graphics." Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites           
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