Sales are slow ..... only 4 are spoken for.
it ain`t there anymore.....i feel sorry for those who bought it....
More than likely what happened there was AMD told them to take it down till they are ready to anouce it for everyone.
Why? I would imagine money to be refunded...
Thats the same online shop that offered bulldozer preorders way ahead of time. As far as I know they are a reputable company.
Still Ill wait until the official launch so I can decide if I think the upgrade will be worth it.
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Guys, large websites like BLT, SuperBiiz/MA Labs, Provantage.com who do not just sell to end consumers but also to resellers and businesses often have electronic inventory that updates itself when AMD schedules large shipments of product. It is an automated electronic inventory. Within their inventory program (the application they use to manage inventory and availability) they often have the option to hide inventory or hide the product all together on their websites so as to not give away any kind of information that may hurt AMD before they want NDA to lift, or before a large product launch.
AMD generally does not want these things disclosed, though sometimes press slides meant for closed rooms leak:
Model Numbers, which can change often from when they leak to retail
Clock speed, cache amount, architecture (after they have already claimed performance per clock increase, overall vague performance increase)
Price
Because if a website lists all those things too early, it gives intel a head start on exactly what kind of improvements AMD made just by looking at the paper, and give them time to undercut AMD prices or release new models before AMD can have time to ship actual product. Trust me, the 1-2 months is a lot of time, especially for intel to convince OEMs how bad the AMD product is, what new products are coming for intel and what price cuts intel will implement which is why AMD tried to keep FX in the dark until right before launch.
Anyone know what specifically they changed on Vishera? I'm just interested in finding out what they've done.
What walldow says below, sort of.
Resonant clock mesh is the name for a new technology that AMD is implementing into Trinity and Vishera based processors.
Basically, to keep the clock speed throughout the whole CPU you need to send a signal to every part that runs the same speed. (same MHz.) With this new technology, the clock is basically just echoed throughout the CPU, making the overall design more efficient, especially at lower clock speeds when you don't need to echo that so much.
AMD and the company they have partnered with noted improvements between 5 and 15% in early Trinity tests, under 4.2 GHz. From what I understand, the higher the frequency the less this helps.
they went whith a new clock mesh wich suposedly lets them iether run 10-15% higher clock speeds at the same TDP. or run the same clock speeds with a 10-15% lower TDP. they chose to keep the same TDP and higher clock speeds, giving you the native 4ghz core on the 8350 and partially due to more efficient "Piledriver" microarchitecture.
Sort of.
Improvements are made within the execution cores and parts of the CPU that feed data into the execution cores (the calculators) of the CPU. I think they expect 5% there too from Zambezi-based CPUs to Vishera.
