i would wait for a chip from AMD that does not have a problem and that is faster then the one with the bug problem. it is suppose to be faster then athlon but if your buying a new chip it better be good or cheap. one of the 2. Plus I was not truely interested in this chip from the start i am looking at the other chips in 2009 that AMD has bin making. I find this is chip is for people to get use to the idea. almost a beta test that there trying to get money off of.. wonder what it would have bin like if they did nto have this problem?
you guys already made up your minds with out reading about it. this is only the first chip out many that are suppose to come out. fusion, plus also is coming out in 2009 and also a new socket for new chipsets. it is going to change up soon. They are also disapoint inthere results and know that there was a flaw. At least they don't hide from there mistakes. The manufacturing is good just made a flaw in the chip it's self that they will use a bios patch which makes it loose 20% of it's performance. I beleive after this mess is over with things will be looking up plus i was not waiting for this chip i was waiting for the next ones, they real big deal ones. i beleive they will make them for work station and mid range chips nothing high performance gaming machines. sell them low price to get them out the door for the other chips to come into practice.
i read many articles on this. Saying things like "Before Phenom's release, it was discovered that a bug in the L3 cache in AMD's quad-core processors can cause a system lockup in rare circumstances. Phenom is affected by this bug up to and including stepping B2. There exist software workarounds to prevent this problem from occurring, although the workarounds typically employed incur a considerable performance penalty. This penalty was not accounted for in early pre-release previews of Phenom, so the performance of early Phenoms delivered to customers is expected to be somewhat below the benchmarks in these previews. Updated CPUs with the bug fixed will be named Phenom 9550 and 9650, and are supposed to arrive "mid to late Q1 2008."" As well as in this article what is going on. AMD has said that they will not make them for high performance machines and sell them for mid range ones instead. They still have many chips being developed. This is like a test chip for all the others lol. I read this which i think many people will find interesting... http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35262/118/ And another story on it http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35264/118/ would be interesting if Gamespot did a hardware news hotspot show, were they could explain the details and things ina simple terms as well as make it interesting for everybody. Like there is so much they could talk about am3 socket, HyperTransport 3.0 and so much more. Like i can not do all the camperisons as each chip does a better job at dealing with software and energy. how will this hardware effect my life? stuff liek that news ect...
I thought they had problems with there chip and had to do a bio fix that made them loose 30% of there performance, instead of having the chip working properly.
can't wait untel PC have 4 graphics cards 4 processor plus a physics card all mainstream and games are taking advantage of all this power. They are already starting to do this so were does the play station 3 get the sticking around for 10 years, things advance to fast to even say that. hope it's good anyways. a little off topic... now goodnight.
who cares about sonic, boring. I want to see something new, something that can really thrill pulled into the game. running around just doesn't do that for me anymore.
I hurd they were making games for the play station 3 before they even had the hardware togather and software kits to take advantage of the hardware. i think next line up of games is going to actualy show something off the play station 3 can actualy do. i think PC is better at least you can upgrade it if it sucks and the graphics are much better and so on everything the console can do the pc can do better, yeah the should make the playstation 3 upgrade able.
Xbox 360 is okay like fable 2 trailer looked pritty interesting. I just think we can do alot more then what were seeing and if sony is going to bring it to me then i'm all for it. If you have looked at all ps3 titles on gamespot most of them don't have any information on them accept a genre of what the game is going to be about. Games i'm interested in are. 1. Haze 2. heavy rain 3. Alone in the dark for PC 1. alan wake 2. UT2007 3. quak wars and some other stuff . goodnight.
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