Ik las net dit bericht op www.2cpu.com:
Zou wel jammer zijn...Just got a heads-up from Anthony (Scriion in the forums), who wanted to point me to this thread in Storage Review's forums. Apparently one of their users gave a pair of Athlon XP's a try in his shiny new Asus A266M-D, based on the new MPX chipset:
My new Asus A266M-D won't work in dual mode with AMD-XP's - at boot it reports:
"AMD XP CPU detected - forcing single CPU mode"
According to Asus this is a requirement being placed on manufacturers of 760MPX boards by AMD. Only MP CPU's will be allowed to run in MP mode unless someone can figure out how to trick the CPU model detection?
I guess they need to force people into the high profit MP chips!
I guess they do at that. So, does anyone want to lay any bets on what this might mean (if anything) for the future? Is AMD going to start playing "dirty" like Intel as they become bigger? Do corporate types automatically get the itch to squeeze their user base as that base grows?
Or is this just good business sense? After all, if a few enthusiasts buy Athlon XP's instead of MP's, that doesn't matter much, does it? But what if all your corporate customers start buying the cheaper XP's and giving your cash-cow MP's the cold shoulder...?
If we do not change our direction, we will likely end up where we are heading.