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   #35. Posted at 11:49 PM on Aug 13th 2007 Edit   Reply
indeego
A black box is the full force of AMD's marketing effort, folks. This is as good as it gets.

AMD deserves it's quick death.
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#35, I can't imagine why us consumers would want AMD to die. If i...  :  bwillcox  (#48)  «

   #7. Posted at 02:09 AM on Aug 13th 2007, Edited at 02:11 AM on Aug 13th 2007 Edit   Reply
BenWang
90nm? This baby is gonna warm up like a Netburst P4 chip, and AMD dosen't have Intel's marketing department to compensate.

They should be upping the cache to improve performance instead, the die-shrink to 65nm must leave some space on the AM2 package, maybe if AMD went to 4mb cache it could better match the C2D clock for clock.
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#7, it's been proven time and time again that adding more cache ...  :  Deli  (#10)  «
#10, Thank you for that reply. I was just gonna say the same t...  :  Vaughn  (#18)  «
#18, The specifics of the criticism were off, but the core ...  :  SPOOFE  (#28)  «
#28, Have lemons? Make lemonade. Why criticize that? The...  :  flip-mode  (#32)  «
#32, Oh man, are you ever right! Man. I'm a-slappin' ...  :  SPOOFE  (#39)  «
#39, Um, it was a valid point to make. If there is...  :  flip-mode  (#43)  «
#43, Dude, you're blind. I didn't criticize AMD...  :  SPOOFE  (#44)  «
#44, I'm trying to stay away from strawmen a...  :  flip-mode  (#45)  «
#45, A 200MHz, 6.67% clock speed increase...  :  evermore  (#46)  «
#46, Edit: wait, I'm really not sure w...  :  flip-mode  (#47)  «
#7, Why do AMD keep releasing 90nm high end chips but 65nm low e...  :  AbRASiON  (#36)  «
#36, the top end never sells as much as the low/mid ranges so t...  :  green  (#42)  «

   #2. Posted at 01:15 AM on Aug 13th 2007 Edit   Reply
evermore
"Black Edition"? That's just inane. At least when you get a mainboard or video card, a car or anything else with a special branding like that, the product itself is actually different somehow. Colored PCB, special heatsink, celebrity-designed seat covers, something. Not just a different color box. Hard to know whether they're charging extra for the "special edition" or not of course, since it's also going to be so overpriced just for being the newest and fastest, but it's still just silly marketing.

Not every damn thing needs to be "eXtreme", Ultra, or Special Edition.

Kinda funny how they're stretching out the 90nm process. And keep making Athlons with 1MB cache. Intel's just raping them at the high-end and AMD just keeps throwing anything they can come up with into the situation.
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#2, AMD has been making 65nm chips for a while now.  :  BobbinThreadbare  (#3)  «
#3, I know that. But then they come out with their fastest ch...  :  evermore  (#4)  «
#4, as long as it's hitting those speeds with an acceptabl...  :  Deli  (#6)  «
#6, I agree with you. It seemed like AMD hit a wall wit...  :  d0g_p00p  (#11)  «
#11, Yeah, kinda figures that just as AMD starts swit...  :  flip-mode  (#13)  «
#13, el oh el !  :  d0g_p00p  (#14)  «
#11, They're popping out 3 ghz chips by upping the po...  :  SPOOFE  (#29)  «
#29, Actually they haven't upped the power and hea...  :  flip-mode  (#31)  «
#31, I would say it is more than that, I don't ...  :  axeman  (#33)  «
#31, And I categorize those power-hungry proces...  :  SPOOFE  (#41)  «
#4, Because AMD only have 2 FABs. FAB36 is 65nm and FAB30 ...  :  dragmor  (#9)  «

   #5. Posted at 01:52 AM on Aug 13th 2007 Edit   Reply
eitje
200 MHz. Seriously.
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#5, This has been the standard increase based on the model numbe...  :  Lord.Blue  (#21)  «
#21, It's still not all that impressive. :P  :  eitje  (#22)  «
#22, Not impressive to the tech savvy, no... but the uninfo...  :  SPOOFE  (#27)  «
#27, good point. it DOES come in a black box.  :  eitje  (#34)  «
#34, Hey, people have been paying premiums (albeit re...  :  SPOOFE  (#40)  «
# Isn't that what motherboard reviews are for?  :  SPOOFE  (#38)  «

   #30. Posted at 07:52 PM on Aug 13th 2007 Edit   Reply
PetMiceRnice
Black Edition? Reminds me of Need For Speed Most Wanted.
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   #19. Posted at 10:58 AM on Aug 13th 2007 Edit   Reply
maroon1
Intel quad core Q6600 and Q6700 consume less power than 6000+ and 6400+

95W vs 125W
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#19, The G0 stepping not the older E3 stepping. ;)  :  Krogoth  (#20)  «
#20, The B3 stepping was 105W, thats still lower than 6000+ an...  :  maroon1  (#26)  «

   #23. Posted at 01:23 PM on Aug 13th 2007 Edit   Reply
Vrock
800mhz faster than my 4600+ w/ twice the cache. Shame I can't think of any practical reason to upgrade. I need a new vid card first.
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#23, it's cool this chip is there for those who's boards won't su...  :  leor  (#24)  «
#24, Yeah, but 125w of TDP sucks the big'un. My 4600+ does 65w...  :  Vrock  (#25)  «

   #1. Posted at 01:14 AM on Aug 13th 2007, Edited at 01:15 AM on Aug 13th 2007 Edit   Reply
alex666
I'll be looking forward to reading the specs and performance numbers on that. A last hurrah for 90nm?

Cool box.
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#1, I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that it will be 6....  :  blastdoor  (#15)  «
#15, Ha ha. I was thinking more in terms of any potential over...  :  alex666  (#17)  «

   #16. Posted at 09:31 AM on Aug 13th 2007 Edit   Reply
Flying Fox
Took them long enough to accumulate really cherry-picked parts?
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   #8. Posted at 02:15 AM on Aug 13th 2007 Edit   Reply
ssidbroadcast
Once you go Black, you never go back…

ALIVE!
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#8, ssidbroadcast is on point.  :  flip-mode  (#12)  «
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