![]() However, with the economic recession in full effect, companies like Qimonda have already filed for insolvency and have been bailed out (all the cool kids are doing it these days it seems). There will be an inevitable drop in DDR3 prices in 2009 and it should become more mainstream. ![]() ![]() It needs to be a significant performance bump in order to incentivise people to upgrade, bringing down DDR3 prices further and actually generating a performance gap. As much as we'd love to big-up the new socket and latest memory support, at the end of the day it's more of a formal increment to keep up with the changing times and, even then, DDR3 is still something to shy away from.Īs it stands, in our opinion the DDR3 memory controller simply isn't good enough - AMD needs to push for 1,600MHz memory support and 8GB of DDR3 (all four slots) as well. That pretty much confirms what I already knew.Value and ConclusionsWithout even reviewing the product, after being told at the initial briefing that DDR3 performance accounted for only a five percent improvement, we knew we weren't going to see much more than an evolutionary bump for AM3. I hope I'm wrong, but from where I'm sitting I'm seeing the end of AMD, and the beginning of huge price increases and complete market takeover. They needed to launch a competitive product, and instead launched something that is basically competing with 3 generation old technology. I knew it was bad, but I never would've dreamed they fall even further behind like this with so much at stake. I am so shocked I suspended in disbelief right now. Man, I've been fired up all day and on top of the world, and I wish I had never seen that. If I thought it would help I'd just buy an ATi card and a CPU just to help, but I can't buy enough of them alone. It's gonna take more than there are of us even. It's gonna take Joe Public too in the Million's to help them out it. I don't know.I'm rambling becasue I'm beside myself right now wondering how things got this dang bad. just because someone's product isn't the performance leader doesn't mean they aren't competitive at all. deneb looks good and with some more reviews and different benchmarks it will tell a lot more. the chip looks to have a lot of overclocking headroom as well. I didn't calculate it, but it's definitely in the high range. Remember, that's only for these specific benchmarks at 3.7GHz. My comments are reflective of what's seen in this updated review and nothing else.Īnyways, I really hope Deneb can clock at a consistent 4.0GHz+ on air, because that will make a considerable difference in our part of the market, but even so, that only *possibly* edges out Kentsfield. Then you have to take Yorkfield into consideration, which, as far as we can tell, clocks very similar to Deneb. Intel will likely drop prices on Yorkfield once Deneb saturates retail, so it will really make things hard on Deneb, at least by users like me that already have LGA775 and are looking to upgrade. Hopefully AMD can sign some big server contracts, as I am not looking forward to no competition in the market.current amd users will have no need to switch unless they feel like they should get i7 and even if the performance of yorkfield and deneb are the same no one will want to upgrade to a dead platform especially when deneb's platform will be cheaper. I don't see deneb coming out and being amazing but i do believe it will increase amd's market share from what it is now.Phenom is the 64-bit AMD desktop processor line based on the K10 microarchitecture, in what AMD calls family 10h (10 hex, i.e. 16 in normal decimal numbers) processors, sometimes incorrectly called "K10h". Triple-core versions (codenamed Toliman) belong to the Phenom 8000 series and quad cores (codenamed Agena) to the AMD Phenom X4 9000 series. The first processor in the family was released in 2007.ĪMD considers the quad core Phenoms to be the first "true" quad core design, as these processors are a monolithic multi-core design (all cores on the same silicon die), unlike Intel's Core 2 Quad series which are a multi-chip module (MCM) design. The processors are on the Socket AM2+ platform.Before Phenom's original release a flaw was discovered in the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) that could cause a system lock-up in rare circumstances Phenom processors up to and including stepping "B2" and "BA" are affected by this bug.
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