the phenom II´s :D

[p0Pe]

heard of the new phenoms? combined with the hd 5000 series i think that amd could make a killer comback:D i think i might get the x4 940 3 ghz quad:P its schweeat!


http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/2238/phen24zi1.jpg
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/817/phen2ly2.jpg
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/3362/phen23iy6.jpg
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/5827/phen22gy8.jpg

images shamelessly copied from toms hardware:D

[markkleb]

looks like they built in a lot of headroom. Looking forward to watching how the DDr2 and 3 differ in real life.

[p0Pe]

i hope to get one and finally test my watercooling probertly lol... i couldt really tell the different in temps on a 125W quad and a 125W quad clocked to peak 220W :P

[Trace]

I know what I'm spending my Christmas money on :santa::banana::up:

[SXRguyinMA]

schweeeeet :D

[progbuddy]

Another thing to upgrade to... lol.

[TheGreatSatan]

I think Intel will still spank it

[progbuddy]

I think Intel will still spank it

Depends. If AMD plays its cards right, then they will have the upper hand. A few modifications to HT 3.0 to allow DDR3 and support for newer technology may allow them to surpass the QPI that Intel just put out, just because it is so simple. If you've been looking at AMD's numbers, they've been steadily creeping up to Intel's.

[mtekk]

Depends. If AMD plays its cards right, then they will have the upper hand. A few modifications to HT 3.0 to allow DDR3 and support for newer technology may allow them to surpass the QPI that Intel just put out, just because it is so simple. If you've been looking at AMD's numbers, they've been steadily creeping up to Intel's.

They don't need tweaks to support DDR3 (which is independent of the HyperTransport implementation), that's what socket AM3 is for. Even though I would probably not buy an AMD processor, we really need them to be competitive to push intel.

With QPI Intel has shown that the processor interconnect is not really a bottleneck right now (look at the reviews for the Core i7, changes in the QPI throughput do not dramatically affect the performance), so tweaking HT3 is really not necessary (AMD really has not had an interconnect bottleneck that intel has had).

[TheGreatSatan]

No more FSB and the return of Hyper-Threading means bye-bye AMD. Don't get me wrong, they've done wonders with reviving ATI, but their procs still suck

[♦Cooneytay♦]

If you want a decent budget pc that can run some games and do other somewhat basic stuff. I would go with AMD. I am use one of there AM2 processors!