If Phenom has anything to to, it will be keeping AMD users AMD users.
Sticking to unified voltage regulations is one of the best things I've heard on upgradability and mid-range performance (es. FP) should be very competitive (Kuma/X2) with older Core 2 Duos.

Barcelona might not push that far but Kuma could. They should've rolled out the less ambitious chips first as a buffer.

Whatever Bryan's smoking, I want some of those...
Dude, try decaf. Might change your life.


Anyway, high hopes for Phenom X2- something that might be cheap enough for all of us to buy that has comparable/better performance to C2D (seeing how they have their clocks arranged SO low when dual cores can go/start clocking higher- it should be quite efficient.)

And you don't need to get those crazy motherboards too. (An Asus P5B updated for Penryn is still RM400)

This post has been edited by X.E.D: Jul 24 2007, 07:11 PM

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