Barcelona ran on an nForce Professional 3400 chipset alongside with 4GB of DDR2-667 Ram. While initially there were no benchmarks performed, the fact that Barcelona was able to work as a normal Opteron CPU (since it is drop in compatible with Opterons and the DDR2 memory controller) produced the "It Really Works" effect AMD was expecting. Especially since AMD's engineers took the liberty to showcase a 64-bit version of Windows 2003 Entreprise edition running on AMD's quad-core machine clocked at 1.6GHz.
The news itself was by no means shocking (since everyone expected AMD to do just that) but it turned some heads nonetheless.
About 12 hours ago AMD showcased its first Barcelona quad-core systems at Computex 2007.
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