leukotriene
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Hehe...good one CIWS, but everybody knows that AMD doesn't have a Marketing Dept.I'm sure they've just hung a "Marketing" sign on the janitor's closet.
No, the janitor would do a much better job.
There is really no cause to bitch about socket 940 at this point IMO.
Don't want an Opteron? Don't buy one, they're not made for you. In a perfect world all CPUs would still be socket 7 compatible and Celerons would be quad processor SMP capable.
Socket 754 transforming into the budget/mainstream platform that we all knew it would become seems like giving the consumer more processor for less money. OEMs don't need matched DIMMs so costs are cut and savings are passed on. A 128bit main memory bus is less "necessary" when your RAM latencies are so small.
It will be interesting to see if the L2 cache gets reduced to 256KB. The Athlon64 isn't as cache hungry as other architectures so a 32bit only 256KB L2 K8 could still be damn good performer, particularly in apps that aren't cache intensive.
Whoever came up with the name Sempron needs to be shot. My dyslexic self read it as Spermon. Hey, that actually might work. Spermon your box?
From the people who brought you the Duron comes the new and improved Spermon! All the protection and none of the greasy feeling!
edited to add smartassness