Too smart or too stupid?!

[m25]

DISCLAIMER: This poll is only meant to measure the general opimion; please hold yourself from turning it into a flame. If you are in a flaming mood, please, just vote and don't post anything. Thanks.
Since more or less all of us are pretty angry about the ever missing K10 benchmarks, I was wondering about the reasons this might have and there are actually only 2 of them:
1-K10 is such a bad performer compared to Conroe/Penryn that AMD want's to lie as much as they can before real benches are out. This looks pretty possible also in the light of the famous, but maybe missinterpreted POV-Ray demo.
2-K10 performs well compared to the competition, but they are so smart that they want to put Intel into alert state as late as possible and they are even faking their own performance down, to make Intel fall asleep.
What do you guys think?!

 

[Gh0stDrag0n]

I don't think K10 is a bad performer..... it just isn't a knock your socks off (or your teeth out) conroe killer.

 

[mpjesse]

I think you just wasted 15 seconds of my life.

 

[ethel]

lol, mine too

 

[samael]

I guess we’ll know soon enough ... AMD will reveal something at Computex ... at least that's the general feeling

 

[Claig]

I hope more threads like this pop up, great way to boost my post count without typing anything constructive or interesting.

 

[Gh0stDrag0n]

I hope more threads like this pop up, great way to boost my post count without typing anything constructive or interesting.

Try this one. :twisted:
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=1692084#1692084

 

[Claig]

Cheers

 

[morerevs]

I'll sneek one in as well... i want my avatar

 

[FeareX]

Don't you all just love amd? :tongue:

So that was my smart move for today, im going to bed again

 

[Azreil_2]

:roll: No time like the present to stop lurking and start posting

TBH, I hope that AMD are just being smart and that they will either kick Intel's
ass or at least be on par with them. But who knows :lol:

 

[Claig]

Welcome to the forums!

Couldn't agree more. It works out best for us consumers when a new piece of hardware wipes the floor with its competitor. More competition = better hw!

 

[m25]

I hope more threads like this pop up, great way to boost my post count without typing anything constructive or interesting.

Do you really care about your post count :roll:

 

[Azreil_2]

hehe Thanks ...

And cheaper HW 8)

 

[BaronMatrix]

DISCLAIMER: This poll is only meant to measure the general opimion; please hold yourself from turning it into a flame. If you are in a flaming mood, please, just vote and don't post anything. Thanks.
Since more or less all of us are pretty angry about the ever missing K10 benchmarks, I was wondering about the reasons this might have and there are actually only 2 of them:
1-K10 is such a bad performer compared to Conroe/Penryn that AMD want's to lie as much as they can before real benches are out. This looks pretty possible also in the light of the famous, but maybe missinterpreted POV-Ray demo.
2-K10 performs well compared to the competition, but they are so smart that they want to put Intel into alert state as late as possible and they are even faking their own performance down, to make Intel fall asleep.
What do you guys think?!

I realy don't care truthfully. I hope they improve K8 significantly, but it won't make or break my day. I always say that AMD can't be as flamboyant as Intel because of their size.
But I also say that they hire Alpha and Itanium engrs and IBM managers to make sure they can do what they say.

If they really got 1.8x Opteron, we will see shortly. It maybe possible that they added something last minute, like single core OCing. Who knows?

I did vote for the least bad choice which was too smart. At least this should be the last one of these as Agena should be benched during the week at Computex.

 

[m25]

hehe Thanks ...

And cheaper HW 8)

How much I wish I could put my hands on a less-than-$300 quad this year :twisted:

 

[Claig]

Do you really care about your post count :roll:

Only until I have 100 so I can get my avatar. After that I'm not bothered.

 

[Slobogob]

hehe Thanks ...

And cheaper HW 8)

How much I wish I could put my hands on a less-than-$300 quad this year :twisted:

I´m certain you can. It´ll be an intel though. :!:

 

[halbhh]

Glad u did this poll, since I'm curious to see if the vocal opinion is actually the majority, marginal majority, or even a minority. I think it will take a day or two to get 40-80 votes, so the thread should be bumbed up this evening.

 

[m25]

I´m certain you can. It´ll be an intel though. :!:

I really don't care what it is; I will just get the best price performance and will probably go for the cheapest one. Probably will be a Q6600 if the Phenom line shines, because they'll be too expensive in that case, however, I don't want to get anything lower than a Q6600 (and a lovely 3.0GHz OC) if Phenom sucks

 

[dasickninja]

It would have to be an Intel, because there is no way that AMD would be so crazy as to debut a quad core at anything less than $900. I hope.

 

[m25]

This will be worth for all barcelona chips matching or exceeding the performance of a $900 Intel chip; otherwise, they will be forced to adhere to the price/performance position they belong.

 

[dasickninja]

I'm not sure that they will truly take back the performance crown. They might extend the lead in places that they already "owned", but I doubt that they will flip Blue.

 

[m25]

I'm not sure that they will truly take back the performance crown. They might extend the lead in places that they already "owned", but I doubt that they will flip Blue.

We're missing everything here to have a picture of the future positions; they claim a lot of goodies, including breaking into Intel's last fortress, the laptop but until they play this stupid game of claiming without proofing, what can we say? :roll: !

 

[halbhh]

I bet they'll hue to the price/performance ratios also, and therefore you'll have a choice at that $200-300 range, with similar performance. That's a reasonable guess. It might take a month or two for the initial flunctuation to move there, but I think it will. Let's hope AMD has good sense enough to make their product mix weighted toward quads. I think single cores should now be relegated to speciality chips.