I'd hope it doesn't bottleneck too much.....but you never know.
I think you meant an FX59 @ 3.0GHz....something we probably won't see this year (only a 2.6GHz A64 4000+ is on the roadmaps for this year (Q4), so I doubt a 3.0GHz FX is in line...maybe the 2.8GHz FX57). Anyway, we probably won't see any major clockspeed advances from AMD until Intel truly gets its act together (Q3 '05 at the soonest, IMO). Scotty D0 should go no further than 4.0GHz as retail, then we might get some FSB increases, but nothing impressive will come out of Intel for awhile now that Tejas was cancelled. And then we will finally see AMD kickup the A64 lines to their maxes (in the meantime they can rake in money from those in-the-know).
IIRC, only 3.1ish GHz is possible with an A64 CG stepping and a Prommy GT right now. Anyway, the 90nm San Diego will be VERY nice I am sure (having heard through an old news release that AMD's 90nm process is not experiencing a lot of leakage [not that Scotty is, excess heat is inherent in the design....a 90nm Northwood would have been nicer] and at the same clockspeed as its 130nm counterpart, has a little more than half the TPD [54W FX55s or something like that]).
Ergh, why can't San Diego, S939, PCI-EX and SATA II just come already....it's almost upgrade time for me!
Maxtor disgraces the six letters that make Matrox.
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