I am a little worried 939?s will have less chance but duel memory SHOULD make up for it and go a little further ahead in performance.
But the prices ? WTF
Intel is wounded, a shot to right arm of the company with tejas gone/ Prescott issues, the emphasis on Mhz/ghz gone, but its still dangerous. AMD aren?t shifting too many Clawhammer, it?s a fact and I wish it were otherwise, one of the reason they won?t increase or run Dresden at full capacity is that they are keeping the market small, Xp?s are still the main attribute of their income and they reckon it will be until Q4. Hector has the thing with high prices so ppl think ? wow, its expensive it must be tons better then the Intel equivalent ?
Prescott won?t get any better, for the fan boys that were hailing that come 3.6 GHz or there about it would take off sorry it wont and never will, Toms showed this, maybe DDR 2 might give it a boost but 04/05 belongs to AMD, but you can just sense that AMD are going to shot themselves in the foot. I want to see AMD trample Intel and embarrass them with the huge price/performance ratio they used to have but allow it to shine through on the Hammers/Newcastle?s, this makes Intel work harder and prices come down so we all win. But if AMD decide to keep prices high Intel will just leave their prices as they are and get the money simply because there cheaper also the marketed brand.
Perhaps I sound a little biased but even the most die hard Intel fan can appreciate what hard competition does, makes Intel work harder and knocks down prices, thing is Intel will work harder and not bother to knock prices because AMD are making their chips look cheap. Some might say ? Yeah, give it a month and they?ll drop prices or even 6 months down the line?, I doubt it , Hector had the same approach with high prices @ Motorola. They?ll only shift more 64?s when they realise their prices are just too much. Perhaps there is a reason for asking so much for one, does anyone know if the production costs are higher for the K8 then for the K7?, hell there saving money on the 939?s by cutting the cache in half, so what?s up?
Id like to know how much headroom they?ve got with clock speed at 0.13 micron process, I?m not expecting huge performances gain to be seen in 939?s, in some cache hungry apps they clawhammer will pull ahead and in some memory bandwidth intense apps, the 939?s will pull ahead, so it be nice if AMD could of added an extra 100 Mhz to the chip, instead of added 100 points to the performance rating for a chip running at the same speed as a clawhammer, it would of put more pressure on Intel and perhaps justify the cost a little more.
Sorry for the long post ;-)
Hopefully the launch on the first will clear up some questions...
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