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AMD Phenom, 790FX and Radeon HD 3850/3870 gear up for AM D-Day
AMD HAS NOTHING to lose. And in the next two weeks, the company will host a ton of briefings in different parts of the world, so that everything is ready for its Spider Platform.
This is a codename for cocktail of next-gen processors, chipsets (790FX and 770) and Radeon HD 3850 & 3870 graphics cards.
North-American based AMDfolk will be buzzing about on American Airlines, spreading the gospel.
Since AMD is launching a complete system, there are quite a lot of PCs being assembled right now, and they will be distributed to hacks for some review action.
We wonder how AMD's sampling policy will cope under the strain. With the launch of Barcelona, we were left wondering why the workstation segment was addressed with just one marketing slide stating AMD 3rd Generation Opteron - Server and Workstation Processor.
And later, company execs complained that a certain web-site ran its Opteron server setup as a desktop, emulating Phenom performance (an impossible task, due to saturated memory bandwidth).
We wonder if unsatisfied hacks will be left in the dark this time around. µ
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Right now all we can do is hope for the best that Spider will kick ass. It is essential to the PC industry that AMD puts out a competitive product. If it's on par with Yorkfield, so be it. A level playing field really puts the decision on the consumer, which is what we all want.

Phenom better be a top performer, I'm tired of threads on forums everywhere with anything about Phenom being turned into an AMD bashing game...

3850 and 3870 should absolutely blow NVIDIA away for the time being with what has been shown. DX10.1 offers some nice improvements over DX10.0 so I expect developers to want to implement it.

If I'm not mistaken, I think this is the first time that there's a simultaneous CPU+GPU+chipset launch.... This looks at least interesting in the history side, lets see if performance adds up...

cheers
Im not seeing how Phenom can bean Peryn which can clock to 4Ghz on AIR and probably to 5Ghz with a stepping. I hope AMD can at least have some stock of this fabled Phenom maybe they should have called it Phantom!
I'll agree first time I've seen such a launch but what a set-up it would be to have all the 3 above high-end parts. Some OCZ Crossfire DDR2 memory installed and Win XP (VISTA Piffle) top it up with a RAID array and your in fun land.
The problem is I really want a RV670 along with a RD790, but then I have to have a Phenom, where I really want a Penryn.

Come on ATI, make some Intel chipsets again - then you can take some money even when Intel sells stuff. Or <gasp> make Phenom competitive.
Well given that nvidia just released the 8800GT which obsoletes their entire lineup I think it's safe to assume that ATI's 3000 series will do the same.

Chipset-wise, as long as it's stable and at least as fast as anything else out there then it's bound to do well - provided phenom doesn't suck.

The barcelona benchmarks from before put it on par with penryn I think, except for the clock speeds which is a big if. No secret that intel can deliver on their end.
Please for alls sake can u tell the difference between 3.0 Mhx cpu & a 4.0 Mhz.?
Get a life about all this. All should be glad we have competition, or else Intel would rape u..period.