AMD starts shipping 4-core Phenom II processors

Online retailers have begun to receive orders for the new AMD Phenom II processor for computers Stolny. According to experts, Advanced Micro Devices will release a computer just before the scheduled time. The company had intended to submit a new product in mid- January 2009. According to several vendors, AMD will supply the processor 27 December.

Phenom II is the latest four -core processor built on 45nm technology and is designed for use in desktop computers, high-end segment. The official premiere of the processor is to be held from 8 to 11 January at the exhibition of electronic novelties Consumer Electronic Show 2009 in Las Vegas (USA).

4-core Phenom II will operate at frequencies of 2.8-3.0 GHz and have a total of 8 MB of cache memory. According to informal tests, the new processors overclock well, and during the use of water cooling system Phenom II was overclocked to 4 GHz, as in the case of a system based on liquid nitrogen - up to 5 GHz.

The top model of the AMD Phenom II X4 940, running at 3 GHz, will cost U.S. $ 304-373 (data of online stores vary ), a 2.8- gigahertz X4 920 will cost 271-317 dollars.

Today's versions of processors working memory format DDR2, a few months on the market there will be new Phenom II, working with new motherboards based on the AM3 socket. These CPUs will support DDR3 memory, a faster.

Estimates of Fixed-Price Contracts

Hello!.

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In the wilds. LESBIAN. came across a small article about the cost estimates in the. Fixed. -. Price. projects:.

http://www. enter-agile. com/2010/10/fixed-price. html? spref = fb. The article carries with it a. only. useful thing to remember is planning any project, regardless of contract type. The idea of ​​a simple and reasonable:.

Judge not modules ( implementation) and functionality ( requirements).

it. really important and very useful as it allows the ' play' with the content (. scope. ) Project as well as. obvious. allows us to show customers ' severity ' of each. features. Although I must say, there are other situations:.

a. Sometimes the need to separate species. of. (eg, development and testing) as they will be performed by various subcontractors and funded from a variety of. budgets.

2. It is often easier to stretch the imagination and develop a plan consisting of a ' modular ' blocks in the decomposition of which make up the deep problems of the type ' to develop a class A' weighing no more than 8-16 hours, because the only way to show the expected duration of the project to the customer, which . Agile. The main thing - do not even try to use this plan in the future! .

Good luck! .