I take note of the negative points in a case like this but really watch what they are doing in terms of production. That us what investors are doing and they are the money supply. Reading AMD's Quarterly tells me that although some delays are expected, most of the players are ready. This includes and Dells and HPs out there waiting on server hardware.
What we (OC community) did wrong.
We are only enthusiasts here so our view is of minor importance to the production levels. Where we help comes in is in consumer confidence. What the people that jumped ship and trashed AMD did was brought down the importance of enthusiasts even more. We still count but until people realize that it's still better on the green side then support for our niche will be end stocks. If you have Intel hardware that replaced AMD, I'm not saying you should dump it and buy a slower rig, we just didn't need the thread crapping we saw a few months ago trying to lure people over to the blue chip. My emphasis is on thread crapping, I'm not against bragging in the intel section, thats what we all do.
What AMD did wrong
Allowing the FX DSDC system to roll with so little support and explanation. The two big complaints were Power factor and lack of mobo selection. First Power factor; Most of our heavy hitters here have 500-1000 watt psus, that was not a big an issue as it was put out to be. Sure it took more power with two physical chips, two sets of ram, two north bridges (680s) and a host of other server like capabilities. It's a fantastic package but it's takes power to run that kind of horsepower. It was just technology too late.
Second; More boards would have improved the image. With a single north bridge, non-sli and single cpu versions would have given more options.
Moving Forward
K10-Barcelona, Stars will be some major power houses that level the playing field. From there, AMD has to move to 45nm and High K transistors that both chippers are running to. I hope someone with AMD is monitoring this, a lot of us are banking on there success because they have IMO a better product (just not the fastest).
Now looking at this new line up of chips I have my shopping list of needs that I think will make these chips move.
Motherboards we need;
*Overclockable in decked out with the works for the Uber gamers with full SLI/Crossfire support.
*MATX and DTX versions for the budget line and support moderat ocs.
*A DTX style Basre bones board that is rich on speed but not full of features. We want the to work like servers but allow to be oced and just crunch numbers. We fold on them and render on them. Just simple network, onboard video, no HDPCTV super video, no DX10, just something that crunches. We could use a serve board but they only accept ECC ram and most support no OC.
* Of coarse we do still need the HDTV boards with sound and extra slots and enough USB ports to run a media center. People are not going to rush out to by Barcelona chips for HDPC PVRs at this time so those can wait until fall.
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