'athlon' named dropped.... meet 'Phenom' X4/X2/FX

[reclaimer122]

idk... I actually like the name Core2Duo, dunno why, sounds futuristic I guess. Phenom sounds OK, it has a nice sound to it.

I think Phenom almost sounds like a drug too, lol.

 

[Super Nade]

I liked the earlier core naming , like the Sledgehammer. That sounded cool. If AMD are going to be as descripive as the name sounds, I'd expect these CPU's to deliver the goods.

 

[Sorin]

Retarded. Name is nothing, content is everything. (exaggeration, I know names are sometimes important). I don't care if the name Athlon is 7 years old or 100 years old. It's the content of the processor that matters. If the technology of the processor was 7 years old, that'd be a problem. But it's not. The name is getting old in terms of computer years, but the technology is constantly being updated and THAT is what counts. Athlon > Phenom.

 

[Molester]

i don't see the problem, i think it's catchy.... i like it

 

[hafa]

Perhaps they ought to just use a symbol and refer to it as "the processor formerly known as Athlon".

I prefer IBM's alphabet soup to all of this naming nonsense: System 30, AS/400, etc...OK...back to my 5250 session...

 

[Neural Net]

Next it'll be the "Super-duper X2" or maybe even "1337 X2". You heard it here first.

 

[txtmstrjoe]

haha, Phenom does sound cooler then Core. I shall buy one simply so I can name it the Undertaker.

Bwahahahahaha!!

I was so thinking that myself!

Then I'd go out and get another one, paint the whole thing red and black, use red LED fans, and call it "Kane, the Big Red Machine"!

 

[downer]

long live Duron!

 

[Omsion]

Personally, I dislike that name. Phenom...just sounds strange - it's doesn't sound proccessor like, more like deoderant or something.

 

[Cheator]

It doesn't matter how fast it is. As long as it sounds cool is faster. Mhz no longer matter.

 

[dem0lish3r]

Yes cheator, soon we will be overclocking the sound of the name of the cpu. All cpu's will run at a stock speed, but by ocing the name, your cpu will be cooler and faster than anyone elses.

 

[Mr.Guvernment]

I just hope the Phenom lives up to its name.

My thought exactly.

 

[ochungry]

Whatever the name going to be does not matter to me, so long as its "AMD" in a green box that beats the hell of conroe.

 

[rainless]

Source: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7136

Phenom? You mean "PHANTOM!"

They'll have a whole line of PHANTOM! cpus. Twelve times faster than C2D, with intrgrated graphics 23 times faster than NVIDIAs 8000 series.

Hold your breath... for the PHANTOM!

 

[Hardin]

Pfft don't mind the naysayers. Phenom or not it will have acceptable performance.

 

[rainless]

Pfft don't mind the naysayers. Phenom or not it will have acceptable performance.

Really? I'd say they need to be about eight tokes over "acceptable" right about now...

But what makes you so sure?

 

[benbaked]

But what makes you so sure?

Because if it doesn't deliver then AMD will go the way of Cyrix.

I pray we never see that day.

 

[Hardin]

Because if it doesn't deliver then AMD will go the way of Cyrix.

I pray we never see that day.

Exactly. If it took them this long to release a cpu that doesn't perform even acceptably then AMD will go under and I just don't think that will happen.

 

[Cheator]

Yes cheator, soon we will be overclocking the sound of the name of the cpu. All cpu's will run at a stock speed, but by ocing the name, your cpu will be cooler and faster than anyone elses.

Oh heck yes! I can overclock my Opteron to an Exceleron. Its way faster.

 

[CCUABIDExORxDIE]

rainless, where do you get off saying this? lets see intel sell ANY dual core model that can compete with the 3600+ for 59 bucks shipped. no way they can do it, i dont even think they dip down to the 60's with the old pentium D series. because amd can't beat intel speed wise, they do it price wise.

regardless i enjoy the naming scheme of phenom. phx4 and phx2 are gonna be ill.