Helps reduce TCO, simplify PC management, and enhance productivity.

Benefit 1: Help reduce total cost of ownership.

AMD CSIP platforms help lower total IT costs by:

• Minimizing the number of platform configurations
• Reducing end-user testing and qualification requirements
• Simplifying ongoing PC management

Benefit 2: Simplify PC deployment and management.

With platform components available for a defined stability period, an IT organization can:

• Minimize the number of disk images
• Reduce IT infrastructure complexity
• Ease system testing, qualification, deployment, and maintenance efforts

Benefit 3: Enhance productivity with AMD64.

The AMD Athlon™ 64 processor family and AMD Turion™ 64 mobile technology family feature numerous innovations that deliver exceptional performance and can enhance end-user productivity. A few examples:

• Features such as HyperTransport™ technology and an integrated DDR2 memory controller make for technically advanced PC processors, providing outstanding performance on mission-critical business applications.
• Enhanced Virus Protection* provides extra hardware-based security against certain malicious worms and viruses, improving integrity and helping to prevent downtime in your IT infrastructure.
• Enhanced power management:
  • For desktop PCs, Cool'n'Quiet™ technology conserves power while enabling a whisper-quiet computing environment.

* Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP) is only enabled by certain operating systems including the current versions of Microsoft® Windows®, Linux, Solaris and BSD Unix. After properly installing the appropriate operating system release, users must enable the protection of their applications and associated files from memory buffer overrun attacks. Contact your application software vendor for information regarding use of the application in conjunction with Enhanced Virus Protection. AMD and its partners strongly recommend that users continue to use third party anti-virus software as part of their security strategy.