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Of course, given AMD’s current track record when it comes to launches you obviously should take all this with a grain of salt. Today’s Phenom “launch” is clearly a paper launch designed to appeal to the financial community. In actuality AMD doesn’t even have enough parts available to seed the press with samples. That’s about as bad a sign as it gets when it comes to availability: if we can’t get our hands on CPUs, it’s doubtful that the general public will be able too either. We’re also not aware of a single Tier One system vendor that will be shipping Phenom PCs on launch day.
In our opinion, today’s Phenom “launch” should have been pushed back until AMD was actually closer to delivering Phenom processors in volume. Flying a bunch of press to Tahoe so they can run benchmarks for a few hours isn’t enough to justify this launch. AMD’s current Phenom prices are a bit out of line with reality as well: Intel’s Core 2 Q6600 officially lists for $266 in quantities of 1,000 CPUs. That’s $17 less than the Phenom 9600, and the Core 2 Q6600 is clearly the faster CPU overall.
The star of today’s show is AMD’s 790FX chipset, which by all indications is a tremendous product with lots of potential. 790FX should have had the spotlight to itself today.
Instead everyone will probably be buzzing about Phenom’s disappointing showing in benchmarks. As far as we can tell AMD’s woes with Phenom aren’t manufacturing-related either. In other words, the CPU isn’t scaling because of an issue dealing with manufacturing (i.e. leakage, poor yields, etc) rather it’s the basic design of the CPU itself. The architecture just doesn’t seem to scale well to speeds of 3.0GHz and beyond. AMD needs to get this issue figured out, and they need a fix ASAP. If they don’t figure something out soon, they’ll never get their margins up and they’ll continue to lose money each quarter. Meanwhile Intel is basically toying with AMD, they could release faster Yorkfield and Kentsfield processors today if they wanted, but as long as they continue to dominate in performance, they simply haven’t felt the need to do anything.
This is the exact same position AMD was in roughly two years ago – boy how quickly things have changed
I think i just pooped my self a little. i cant wait to see how it is.
your wait is over my friend
http://www.motherboardpro.com/Socket-AM2-Motherboards-p-1-c-307.html
hmm, seems gigabyte hasn't added any 790 boards to their support page....
also, winXP, vista ultimate?
1978 geezzeez I fell young now
lol you said 29 yr's
I fell great LOL
i think any results here should be for Phenom + DFI, or at least Phenom + 790/770 based boards (oh, and the dfi is for sale, retail, on that link i posted) in fact AC, should that gigabyte not perform, will you switch to the almight king of AMD overclocking that is DFI?
AC, what OS? HD's? would like to see if they improved raid performance on the SB600