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AMD May Be Preparing Phenom II X8

You knew it was coming. The FX lines was supposed to be the high end.

Labeling these as Phenom II seems shady. Are we sure these aren't the 8-Core Opterons (Magny-Cours & Interlagos) re-branded? Labeling those as Phenom II would be alright.
 
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I wondered about this because they're ditching stars... then i see its a bulldozer under the phenom name...

Well if anyone fancies a performance downgrade from stars based phenom II or anything intel these chips will be an excellent choice :thumbsup:
 
How many are buying processors simply based on the number of cores?

Someone in AMD should get in touch with apple, they could drain the mac users wallets faster.😀
 
blah I say. I'd rather them tweak Llano somemore and put on some very low latency L3 cache like Intel has. Also give the L2 cache about a 10-11 clock latency. That in itself woud give a good ipc boost. But even if they started now you woudn't see it for 1.5-2 years if things go smooth.

Won't happen I know.

Edit: I meant cycles not ns.
 
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Those clockspeeds are terribly low these chips have to no purpose most games and apps could really benfit from higher clockspeeds not this 2003 clockspeed bs.

2003 had premium processors with those clockspeeds we are in 2011 intels slowest modern quad core is 2.8ghz and these clowns wanna market this crap?

Premium my ass perhaps for a rendering machine or workhorse i could see these in the market but the price def needs to be in the $130 ballpark at most.
 
Just what we need, a Phenom II that is slower than Phenom I. I can already see many people buying into these for gaming and being horribly disappointed. lol
 
Bet these are destined for mostly OEM boxes. Unless they are going to sell them for less than the FX6100.
 
pyjujiop said:
Selling those things under the Phenom II name would be a disgrace. They should be sold as Semprons.
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I agree but AMD doesn't care about killing brand names. Heck, they have trashed Athlon for a few years now.

Bring back the Duron brand and sell them under that.
 
Vesku said:
Bet these are destined for mostly OEM boxes. Unless they are going to sell them for less than the FX6100.
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OEM workstation boxs maybe.

No one really has use for 8 super slow cores you could not give this processor away to a amd fan....more then likely the amd fan has a x6 1090t or something and will frown at this disrespectful rebranded bulldozer...
 
skipsneeky2 said:
OEM workstation boxs maybe.

No one really has use for 8 super slow cores you could not give this processor away to a amd fan....more then likely the amd fan has a x6 1090t or something and will frown at this disrespectful rebranded bulldozer...
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There are still plenty of people with AM3 boards they might want to hand off, I could definitely see a home for one of these in non performance user machine if they're cheap as dirt.


Although AMD FX family does not play in the ultra high-performance segment of the market where microprocessors cost $400 or more, the Sunnyvale, California-based company clearly positions the chips as premium products. Therefore, the company is not interested in selling products with relatively low performance under the FX brand

Well now that's just plain not true.
 
BD231 said:
There are still plenty of people with AM3 boards they might want to hand off, I could definitely see a home for one of these in non performance user machine if they're cheap as dirt.


Although AMD FX family does not play in the ultra high-performance segment of the market where microprocessors cost $400 or more, the Sunnyvale, California-based company clearly positions the chips as premium products. Therefore, the company is not interested in selling products with relatively low performance under the FX brand

Well now that's just plain not true.
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If performance of the top model can come at least 60% of a 2600k with its 8 processing threads or cores at around $140 i could see them selling for the hardcore users.

Based off not being able to afford a 2600k having the chip be drop in compatible with your current motherboard and having half the performance of a 2600k or better when a app takes advantage of 8 or more threads...
 
BD231 said:
There are still plenty of people with AM3 boards they might want to hand off, I could definitely see a home for one of these in non performance user machine if they're cheap as dirt.


Although AMD FX family does not play in the ultra high-performance segment of the market where microprocessors cost $400 or more, the Sunnyvale, California-based company clearly positions the chips as premium products. Therefore, the company is not interested in selling products with relatively low performance under the FX brand

Well now that's just plain not true.
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These would presumably be on AM3+ instead of AM3. I was hoping for a 8-core K10h CPU for AM3,, but I guess not.
 
A cursory google search of the part numbers will reveal that these "Phenom II" are just Bulldozer engineering samples. Very weak reporting from xbitlabs.
 
skipsneeky2 said:
Those clockspeeds are terribly low these chips have to no purpose most games and apps could really benfit from higher clockspeeds not this 2003 clockspeed bs.

2003 had premium processors with those clockspeeds we are in 2011 intels slowest modern quad core is 2.8ghz and these clowns wanna market this crap?

Premium my ass perhaps for a rendering machine or workhorse i could see these in the market but the price def needs to be in the $130 ballpark at most.
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Your logic makes no sense...
 
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