As much as I would like fast K10 speed ramping, I guess AMD have only very few hand selected cpu's working at ~3Ghz Still this is better than most expected, and gives hope in half a year or so we see such cpu's in retail.
<<One machine is running Call of Juarez and the other is running Stranglehold. I have personally played stranglehold on an Agena system and watched it fully utilize all four Agena cores!
Just to point out, this is NOT a barcelona. It's an Agena. That means Phenom rather than Opteron. They did say they'd get more speed from Agena as the troubles apparently had to do with the ccHT used in the chips for multi-processor systems.
I wonder if there is any reason for using a 32-bit OS instead of a 64-bit one? I think that's what Ycon was thinking....
I agree with ethernalite. This looks like good news, but I'm still not buying it. AMD themselves have stated "sub-2Ghz" clocks for Barcelona launch.
In any case, I hope 3Ghz Barcelonas/Agenas come out quickly.
We still have to consider that this 3Ghz CPU will compete against a 3.33Ghz or, who knows, even a 3.66Ghz C2D/C2Q part if their new Penryn fabrication technology (Hafnium-based dielectrics) improves on power consumption as they've stated in the past.
Thinks are getting more interesting though, that's for sure.
Message edited by Mephistopheles on 07-26-2007 at 06:48:57 PM
They did say they'd get more speed from Agena as the troubles apparently had to do with the ccHT used in the chips for multi-processor systems.
Yeah, but unfortunately, they also said Barcelona comes first, then comes Agena. AFAIK, Agena is slated for a november introduction, but "real volume" comes only in 2008.
It might be that AMD's HT tech will still give them a healthy edge when it comes to competing with Tigerton; however, I doubt that that would be the case if they don't get >2Ghz out the door.
Well that's the first bit of good news for the green team for ages, i really hope it's true and that they intro it at affordable prices, maybe keeping people on AMD mobo's and upgrade path at the expense of profits right now will pay off for AMD, with people upgrading to these chips instead of changing over to Intel systems and then being locked into that upgrade path. Well the end of the year should be interesting with the new Intel offerings, I'll hold off the upgrade till then and then choose the best Price/Performance rig at the time, no point it upgrading now if you're gonna get 50 more performance for the same price and possibly a quad instead of a dual core in 6 months
I love this competition, so much innovation and price cutting in such a short time
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Still this is better than most expected, and gives hope in half a year or so we see such cpu's in retail.
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