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Was just mulling it over in my head, what could AMD have done differently with the Ryzen launch?
On one side, with their current FX CPU revenue/profit being in the gutter, they are financially forced to launch the product as soon as possible to raise some money.
Converse to that, releasing the product means reviewers etc get their hands on it and opine online about the CPU, which can form (positive or negative) opinions among potential purchasers - these opinions can be hard to shift.
On the assumption that the time constraint cannot be shifted - and that the CPUs, Mobos and bios we had at launch were to remain unchanged, is there anything AMD could have done to make Ryzen's foibles more palatable?
I've shortlisted a number of ways AMD could have handled the launch, please feel free to add any <VIABLE> additional options (bearing in mind the constraints above) for what they could have done.
Who knows, maybe for Zen2 they may use this thread as a point of reference for how to improve matters.
On one side, with their current FX CPU revenue/profit being in the gutter, they are financially forced to launch the product as soon as possible to raise some money.
Converse to that, releasing the product means reviewers etc get their hands on it and opine online about the CPU, which can form (positive or negative) opinions among potential purchasers - these opinions can be hard to shift.
On the assumption that the time constraint cannot be shifted - and that the CPUs, Mobos and bios we had at launch were to remain unchanged, is there anything AMD could have done to make Ryzen's foibles more palatable?
I've shortlisted a number of ways AMD could have handled the launch, please feel free to add any <VIABLE> additional options (bearing in mind the constraints above) for what they could have done.
Who knows, maybe for Zen2 they may use this thread as a point of reference for how to improve matters.