http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2340569,00.asp
Was going to really hammer AMD for releasing the AM3 CPU's at such a low clock rate and 4MB of L3 cache. The above article really made it look that AMD was biting the big one and I was quite confused on why they would be doing that. If you read the above article you'll understand.
Then I went to Anandtech and found this article which explained it a bit.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3512
In essence the new AM3 CPU's are saved CPU's that needed to have the L3 cache reduced. All in all they are trying to use all of their product.
Still, I don't understand why they didn't launch a 3.00Ghz AM3 CPU seeing that the 810 was pretty much on par with the 940.
Was going to really hammer AMD for releasing the AM3 CPU's at such a low clock rate and 4MB of L3 cache. The above article really made it look that AMD was biting the big one and I was quite confused on why they would be doing that. If you read the above article you'll understand.
Then I went to Anandtech and found this article which explained it a bit.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3512
In essence the new AM3 CPU's are saved CPU's that needed to have the L3 cache reduced. All in all they are trying to use all of their product.
Still, I don't understand why they didn't launch a 3.00Ghz AM3 CPU seeing that the 810 was pretty much on par with the 940.