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I think this is going to be a huge flop. That's my personal opinion.
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I'd prefer that the 3 core chips aren't 4 core rejects but that the extra core was disabled by design or a designed triple core. That would give me more confidence in the longevity and performance of said triple core.
I also think the price should reflect a price per core average at the very least. If the triple core was half of a quad, that would make it even more attractive for us and system builders.
It's all about the bang for the buck baby!
Not the brand names
I hope you aren't serious with this statement
The benches should reveal how much they benefit from being native and first quarters will show how economical it is, hopefully it has some truth behind it I can't wait to see their 3Q results.
It is too early not even gamers need 3 core at the moment, so for Joes ehh Sempron and Celeron all the way especially with dual celerons.
It might be useful when softwares support it but by the time it becomes necessary probably will be better to get a quad, of course gonna be interesting to see the celeron sempron battles with different number of cores.
The benches should reveal how much they benefit from being native and first quarters will show how economical it is, hopefully it has some truth behind it I can't wait to see their 3Q results.
It is too early not even gamers need 3 core at the moment, so for Joes ehh Sempron and Celeron all the way especially with dual celerons.
It might be useful when softwares support it but by the time it becomes necessary probably will be better to get a quad, of course gonna be interesting to see the celeron sempron battles with different number of cores.
"By regulating the speed at which each core operates, AMD could conceivably sell a triple-core chip that has higher performance metrics than one of its own quad-core chips, said Insight 64 analyst Nathan Brookwood."
Well at first I thoughyt DUH triple core? Ridiculous... reading that... I still think triple core is ridiculous, but the ability to clock each core independently is aweseom and would be a real boon to the user.
Now what I think a triple core should be used for?
A regular old dual core CPU with an additional one core dedicated as a physics processor.
It doesn't matter if it isn't the "correct" way if it's still faster.
The benches should reveal how much they benefit from being native and first quarters will show how economical it is, hopefully it has some truth behind it I can't wait to see their 3Q results.
Unless AMD can produce these chips at damn competitive pricing without running low on supply which I highly doubt then these chips aren't going to be much for competition. Intel has been producing Quad chips for a year now and as new tech comes out, the current quads will just drop in price. No reason at all for Intel to even consider a 3 core chip when they have sufficient supply of quads to get rid of. AMD simply does not have as much stock as Intel.
Regardless if Conroe's are still using the P4 Buss, they are outmatching the AM2 X2 lineup. Regardless how the Quads aren't true quads, they are at least available and have been for a whole year now meanwhile AMD has nothing besides Barcelona which was only recently released. The Q6600 has been $300 or less since July and AMD will answer at Q1 2008 when they finally release their mainstream Quads. That's a good 6 month apart just for entry level quad not to mention high end quad.
I think the main thing that will save AMD is the longevity factor of the Phenom X4 on an AM2 socket. If it doesn't provide a great loss of performance since HT will be limited to 1ghz and DDR2 800mhz only then anyone that upgrades to the newer chip using their existing AM2 mobo will pay off.
LOL ( "I could see it now")i couldn't agree with you more man, intel is long past even thinking of a tri core processor... hell they were probably laughing their asses off when they heard amd announce they were makeing TRI cores...
i could see it now
Intel exec - hey guys you hear that amd is going to be making tri cores
Intel employee - wow they are going to come out with quad cores
exec - no tri core
employee - haha dude thats a great joke
exec - its not
LAUGHS ALL ROUND lol.
and who cares if intels quads arnt "TRUE" quads, they still outpreforme the competition...
sorry amd fanboys but its the truth, and the truth hurts sometimes.
although i still have a place in my heart for the 939 socket, that socket was kick ***
LOL @ nd4spd & AC. Some good clean fanboyish mudslinging going on right there. Carry on!
Yeah, I'm not so much worried about AMD being competitive performance wise, except that I AM worried about them making money. I want them to get a cash cow, and quick. That basically comes down to performance for the most part mind you.