Prescott E0 Stepping

Captain Newbie · 07-07-04, 06:42 PM

Prescott E0, supporting AMD NX technology, will be issued in 3Q04.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17050

New BIOSes will be required for the NX support, along with the extra stuff E0 will have, including cool'n'quiet...

Somethin' new at least.

stan03 · 07-07-04, 06:55 PM

sorry but what is NX? i saw "no execute memory protection" but that means nothing to me...

Captain Newbie · 07-07-04, 08:53 PM

No Execute locks out certain memory blocks to prevent certain types of attacks and virii.

Chaos_Being · 07-07-04, 09:00 PM

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No Execute locks out certain memory blocks to prevent certain types of attacks and virii.

Neato! Except that I make a lot of my income as a PC tech/repair guy removing all of those viruses from customers' computers every day

SLee · 07-07-04, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Chaos_Being

Neato! Except that I make a lot of my income as a PC tech/repair guy removing all of those viruses from customers' computers every day

Don't worry about it. NX, or XD as Intel calls it primarily protects against worms only. Most viruses, trojans and spyware in general simply are unaffected by NX since they don't use buffer overruns to do their thing.

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stan03 Member Join Date: Mar 2003	sorry but what is NX? i saw "no execute memory protection" but that means nothing to me...
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Captain Newbie Senior Django-loving Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Right seat with a bored "don't kill me" expression	No Execute locks out certain memory blocks to prevent certain types of attacks and virii. __________________ B.S. Computer Science, B.A. Political Science \| Commercial Pilot Airplane Single and Multiengine Land, Instrument Airplane "And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high untresspassed sanctity of space Put out my hand, and touched the face of God." Strong * Focused * Safe Apple Mac Pro 4,1, Two Nehalem Xeons 2.26GHzx4 (Hyperthreaded), 12 GB DDR3 FBDRAM \| MacBook Pro 15" (2009)
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