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I'm typing this from a laptop while on vacation in Japan. Let me tell you, with the amount of video encoding I've done in the past 5 weeks, a quad-core nehalem wouldn't be enough. Now, I know the market for laptop "power" users is small, but don't kid yourselves, wanting more laptop processing...

This is should not be an easy task to complete. You've probably realized there might be one or more problems with more than one possible cause. Many of the problems just come with age. An old power supply, dust, wear, or just age could have damaged any number of components. Further, hard...

I find xtreview.com lacking in credibility. They are plagiarizers. Here's an article they stole from Xbitlabs: http://xtreview.com/review134.htm http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/power-noise.html Just as well, they can make things up on a whim. Regardless, there is no...

Wow! This is the phantom chip AMD had promised 2 years ago. Never tried to buy one as it has always been expensive. Here's the one site that's supposedly still carrying it. $357 http://www.memory4less.com/m4l_itemdetail.asp?rid=fd_10&itemid=1439908571 If it lands at Newegg for 50...

I bet if they stick two E5200s together, clock them down to 2.4, up the bus to 1066, and price them at $160, they'd sell like hotcakes. Well, more like hotdogs. But, that's just me.

Sure, Nehalem will be awesome. But then, should you go for 10x your current performance now or 15x next year? That's the question you need to ask yourself.

Here's the CPU support page. Itchyeyes: As far as Q3 prices go: from VR-Zone http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/Intel_Upcoming_Desktop_CPU_Price_Cut/5787.html If this roadmap holds true, you'll find the Q6600 will be priced at $203. This is a $21 price drop, though you could find...

Uh yea. Intel was founded and has been led by giants who can claim to have created the first microprocessors and without whom semiconductors and technology would not be where it is today. Companies like Microsoft, Oracle, Google, Yahoo, etc. wouldn't exist if not for these guys. AMD was...

If Intel could make a convincing rebuttal 3 years ago that AMD's failure to win market more market share was due to a lack of foresight to expand capacity when they had a superior product, you can bet Intel will mount a far more compelling defense now. In the last 2 years, AMD has run up $8...

Cheerleading is just bad for companies that screw up. In sports cheerleading helps morale resulting in better performance, one hopes. But, unlike in sports, cheerleading won't make AMD processors perform or overclock any better. Should we expect AMD employees and executives to be reading...

This sucks

Among AMD executives, Phil Hester has had my highest repects. This loss is greater than the loss of all executives, AMD and ATI combined, in the past two years. There few surer signs of a sinking ship than a CTO of a technology company bailing. I don't know the circumstances of his...

There are 4 common models used to approximate yields based on defect density and critical area. The "defect density" published by AMD is a summed factor of various defect densities as a function of various critical areas within the die. This makes it easy for others to do plug-and-chug...

Hi Kyle, According toTomshardware: http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/29/intel_penryn_4ghz_with_air_cooling/page18.html The new boxed cooler looks nice. Did you guys also get the documents? and if so, does it say which processors will come with it? Would be nice to get that cooler...

The QX6850 measurement appears to be off. The data shows quad-core QX9650 draws as much power as dual-core X6800 which would agree with all the other reviews. Yorkfield Extreme Edition runs cool, no-brainer there. The bright spot here is Kyle's testing of Yorkfield at varying loads...

Considering Intel posted a 43% increase in profits in Q3 on sales of $10.1B and with market pricing higher than official pricing while AMD's is lower...the expected loss of $0.62/share or ~$350M net loss is a little optimistic. Though this quarter should have been much better for AMD because...

Good job. I simplified the equation to solve for CPU score: CPU score = 0.3*3dmarks/((5-(3.4*3dmarks/(sm2score+sm3score)))) Yup, I got 19374 for CPU score. So, you're dead on. Difficult to say what convention Theo used to arrive at those numbers because he probably just made them...

Actually, the stepping he referred to was B0. Speaking of Charlie; after all the ass-chewing for the original bogus piece, he has another article out today saying official roadmaps have pushed desktop Phenoms out to Q1 '08 with clocks of 2.4-2.6GHz. Between Scientia and Charlie "dancing in...

Gee, I wonder how Negroponte will decide who gets the laptops and who doesn't? Does Santa Clause leave bags of goodies for governments of undeveloped countries to give out? Can you say philantro pnwd?

For one thing, Intel was the one that started disabling cache to make Celerons. They're still doing it across the lineup. If they can disable cache, they can disable cores. The question is not if they can, of course. You're right about not seeing Intel disabling bad dual-core dies to make...

That's crazy gouging. One e-tailer is selling the retail E2140 for $92 here in the US.

"Barcelona" Benchmarks? Don't Believe 'Em Just Yet

According to DailyTech: DDR3 support will come with AM3. AM3 will come at the 45nm process node. Therefore, DDR3 support will come when AMD gets to 45nm.

It sucks because it's a power-hungry cost-ineffective underperforming solution. In other words, it sucks because it sucks.

Different OEMs pay different prices for the same processor compared to Tiger Direct. Aside from the processor, the PCs have other parts such as motherboard, memory, drives, cases, etc that carry varying prices. I suggest getting the HP with the x2 3800. Besides having the better processor...

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I would say highly unlikely. I wouldn't say never, given that the political climate is ever-changing.

The supply issue was entirely made up. Intel's bumbling Paul Ortellini screwed up stating shipment rates by saying "weeks" instead of "days" at launch. Though it was not the hardest launch ever, the chips were accessible in the first week, supply was tight for another week+, then became...

LOL! What are you Homey da Clown? Ok, whatever homey. Sure, AMD is feeling the sting. They've had to drop their prices and face lowered demand. As if no one could see it coming a year ago. For AMD to stop making processors, management needs to be insane, shareholders need to be insane...

Pray for corporations? How absurd and superficial. I can do the whole prayer + Ford, Pepsi-Cola, milk, gas, lottery, and cheese thing. I'm going to spare us a rant, though. Why don't you just pray you "make it down the road", OK?:rolleyes:

It might be a good choice for budget upgrades. But then, E4300 + mobo + cheaper ram won't cost that much more. The 9x multiplier allows for plainer parts. Regardless, upgrade market is small. With new builds, even budget builds, +/-50 bucks on top of $500-600 is the cost of performance. It...

Via lost big last year. It wouldn't surprise me if they did gain back 0.9%. I read recently about a deal between HP and Via.

Okay this is queer. Mine says status is "partially backordered". Does this mean I have dibs on the last stick on the shelf? Or is that their normal message?

Phil Hester said 50% greater IPC/watt. As Kyle originally put it: This is odd. Comparing a 120w quad core to a 120w dual core the dual core uses 60w/core, the quad is 30w/core. The dual core is at I/w(core), where "I" stands for a number of instructions per clock cycle and "w" stands...

Just missed it last time. Ordered 2. Thx OP! Thx _Sin_!

Thank you.

I gave you two links with two reviews. You want to give me another or just give up? You appeal to ignorance. Fact is you don't need to know every nit-and-grit detail. Hindsight says their strategy sucked. That's why they lost so much money. You appeal to authority. Fact is you...

I don't share your opinion of the IRS and the courts. The IRS always wants its money. The courts have no incentive either way. It's a civil case, not a criminal one.

AMD had a multitude of choices among which was to grow their own graphics team or buy one. Yet, they chose the $5.4Billion route, $4.2Billion in cash. Buying a big ailing discrete graphics chip company for integrated grahics was a mistake. All they needed was IGP support for Fusion to work...

Ooh! I left out process technology. Yes, that should be in conjuction with capacity.