[smack]Bring It to the parking lot thread, Your Chevy, I'll drag it to the Levee with a Ford
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From the looks over on the Video thread, DAAMMIT is getting flogged. I still have my X850 waiting on that next video core which except for technical slide shows it oddly silent. I'm not as much a fan of the company as I am of the Athlon and Opteron procs. Sure, I bought a bunch of 939 and AM2 boards over the past 2 years. I always wondered what was up with 754, I switched to AMD right at the release of the 939 so I never had a 754. With Intel Skt 775, what do you have, a 357 Cleveland in a Chevette chassis. FSB bandwidth is holding C2D back big time because Intel knows they will p*** off a lot of people to change the socket. Penryn was supposed to be the change but with AMD killing the K9 and gaining no ground, Intel chose the make more bucks option. I think once K10 is out, Zeons sittting on those puny little 771 sockets will be totally out classed. For servers running socket F, there is no reason to replace current working hardware. They will be able to go to Barcelona. Any future added blades or replacements will be in socket F+. That was where AMD did the best move by making the server change first. That's there bread and butter. Now they just have to fill the K10 orders and try to get 45nm production so they can compete for production efficiency.
As for desktops, I still see a lot of AMD Desktops selling so I would not ay it's dried up but it has slowed. I also still here it from people that AMD is not compatible and that BS costs AMD a lot of Desktop sales. I show casual PC buyer the reason not to listen to that CCity or BBuy salesman and go with the AMD.
As for the CPUs seeing the same problems as the GPU side, I doubt that's going to happen. The CPUs are built on a proven platform. ATI was an acquisition platform that is going to need time to reach maturity. The reason not to release K9 was that it was only a moderate step to what the K10 is bringing. I think AMD is repositioning itself to take the lead again the only problem is it got caught naked in the shower while they thought Intel was sleeping. Watching the Meroms and Dothans come out looked like more of Intels parade of P4+'s but the C2D had the big guns to take the lead.
Give AMD a few more weeks. IMO, AM2 is a great socket, better then 939 in my experience. Next year I'm looking to go to socket F+. This year it has been budget AM2 test rigs in the $100-$200 range. Next year I'm looking forward to a major change with possible DDR3. Like DDR2 upon release it will seem silly but look at where DDR2 goes today.
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