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From The Article - "EE" - Ed Stroligo - 9/17/03
NOTE This Information Is Edited :- Reading The Full Article Is Recomended
1) Does the Extreme Edition change your opinion of the AMD FX ? -- Were you considering buying the AMD FX? are you still considering it or has this information changed where your cash goes.
2) If you were not considering early versions of the Athlon FX are you considering the Extreme Edition now
3) Do you believe that the Extreme Edition will greatly effect the early AMD FX market..
4) Was this marketing genius from Intel?, or will it backfire due to the effect that these products may have on current processor pricing ?
5) Will AMD be able to respond to this news ?... How do you think they will do it ?
6) What are your opinions of Eds comments, the article and the Extreme Edition
From The Article - "EE" - Ed Stroligo - 9/17/03
Intel's decision to take a heavily-cached Xeon and let it go slumming with gamers is a pretty brilliant tactical move against AMD.
It's quite ironic, given AMD's penchant for secrecy to the point of silliness, that Intel did the last-minute blindsiding.
It's going to be very hard to seriously review an Athlon FX without comparing it to an Extreme Edition, and the likely general advantage a 2.2GHz FX would have over a "regular" 3.2GHz will vanish against this chip. No doubt the FX will still win some, but so will the EE. It ought to be enough to deny AMD a clean win.
But is it any more than that?
In one sense, yes, it's more than that, if only because Intel said there would be a 90nm version of this chip (presumably when they have 90nm Xeons with 2Mb L3 cache to spare).
That's an important point to note. This is a 130nm CPU. It's overclocking potential is pretty limited.
Relative price is another point. The price of this chip is rumored to be a bit over $700. That may not look so bad compared to current 3.2 pricing, but by the time this CPU becomes available, 3.2s will cost just a bit over $400, and due to go to around $275 by February.
Will the price of the EE plunge likewise? If so, that would be really interesting.
If not, at least from the gamer perspective, this processor would have a very limited time on top in the overclocking world. A cheap overclocked Prescott next February probably will be able to match or beat the EE.
NOTE This Information Is Edited :- Reading The Full Article Is Recomended
1) Does the Extreme Edition change your opinion of the AMD FX ? -- Were you considering buying the AMD FX? are you still considering it or has this information changed where your cash goes.
2) If you were not considering early versions of the Athlon FX are you considering the Extreme Edition now
3) Do you believe that the Extreme Edition will greatly effect the early AMD FX market..
4) Was this marketing genius from Intel?, or will it backfire due to the effect that these products may have on current processor pricing ?
5) Will AMD be able to respond to this news ?... How do you think they will do it ?
6) What are your opinions of Eds comments, the article and the Extreme Edition