Word from Fudzilla at Shanghai 2007 is that AMD is on track to release FX80, the single socket FX chip at around 2.3GHz. Coming along with this is the RD790 chipset and accompanying mobos from the usual suspects. Asus, MSI, ECS and others have announced boards and the Asus board should be the launch platform. The final spin of the chipset is going to manufs as we speak so there should be some boards to test X2 vs. Phenom on a desktop platform by the end of the month.

There is no word on nVidia's Phenom HT3 chipset but I would guess that it's well underway. Perhaps they are waiting for the X2 Phenom which should be the mainstream parts.
www.fudzilla.com

There are also rumors floating around Asia that the B3 stepping is being sent to test right now, so perhaps Budapest will make an early appearance for 1P servers. It will still give current 100 series users a serious upgrade.

Good news Baron ... did you get a chance to look at the stuff on the cache comparisons in Scott's article?

Not sure who Scott is. The cache tests I did see showed that K10 has nearly doubled L1 bandwidth and that the L2 is comparable to Core while except in load situations the L3 is a slight latency bottleneck. That should be hardly noticeable in heavy use scenarios as it will allow for higher coherency amongst sockets.

I just can't wait to upgrade to Phenom X4.

Various news sites reported that during the 9/10 Barcelona launch AMD officially claimed that Phenoms would be available only in December (while given to reviewers in late November).

Not this crap again. Wasn't it last year sometime when you were 'waiting' for the QuadFX?

what a hater!

Hater?

Tell me, do you know what zornundo is talking about? Or are you just assuming he's attacking Baron's dream of Phenom X4? Cause I can tell you that zornundo is not exaggerating about the "not this crap again" sentiment.

So, before you go off spouting "what a hater" at someone, look up the history behind the QuadFX fiasco.

wait wait wait. Its always wait unitil this or wait until that. Wait until the r600 comes out. On a side note did anyone see whatt company intel bought. • UPDATE - Intel to buy Irish game software tools firm Havok
at Reuters (Fri 7:30p go to yahoo finance

Dante,

I do remember what you guys speak of but, their just really isn't a point in brining it up anymore. I think we are beating this one into the ground.

Oh jesus sounds like intels got gfx,cpu and a ppu coming on the one chip now or just gfx with ppu on board...why else would they buy them?

What does that have to do with Baron looking forward to upgrade to Phenom?
In fact what does that have to do with ANYTHING?
How about you find an interesting hobby in life, and stop making yourself look pathetic by beating the skeleton of a dead horse about something that happened ages ago.

On a side note, I am also really looking forward to upgrade to phenom X4.
It will allow me to run TWICE the VST plugins in realtime in Cubase.
Yay

And you should get a clue.
Everyones is silly every now and then, I think Baron paid his dues when it comes to his "horrible mistake".
Maybe it's time people get over it?

http://techreport.com/articles.x/13176

Sorry Baron ... the link above is what I was referring to in the other thread as well. Check out the stuff on the latencies and post your comment.

I was more so waiting for DX10 cards that weren't $500 and also for 2x2GB RAM to be reasonably priced. I really didn't want a jet fan, as noise is bad enough now. Hopefully I can swing a lower priced Blackbird with water cooling. No more fans for me.