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Phenom with TLB patch: 19.8% slower
Name: jackbomb Date: December 6, 2007 at 12:48:04 Pacific OS: Vista and XP CPU/Ram: Various Product: jackbomb
Name: Cobra_R Date: December 6, 2007 at 14:22:56 Pacific
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This is why you never should buy the first generation anything.
Anyone that kept up on the Phenom knows that this first crop of quad cores had its trouble right off the bat with overclocking.
This reminds me of the AMD 90nm Winchester cores cores all over again.
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Response Number 2
Name: jackbomb Date: December 6, 2007 at 20:24:26 Pacific
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And it reminds me of Intel's Willamette. And I didn't think AMD capable of releasing a Willamette.
Hopefully the Phenom will reach its "Northwood" revision soon and get AMD back in the game. :)
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Response Number 3
Name: Sabertooth Date: December 6, 2007 at 21:32:35 Pacific
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"In fact, a credible source indicated to us that at least some of the few high-volume customers who are still accepting Barcelona Opterons with the erratum are receiving "substantial" discounts for taking the chips. One would hope consumers would get the same consideration. The trouble is, I doubt AMD would have shipped Phenom processors in this state were it not feeling intense financial pressure."
It's not so much a bad day for AMD as it is a GOOD one for many lucky opportunists - heh ;-)
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