So who will be getting Phenom 2 right off the bat

[Titan7171]

i have about $300 sitting on the side waiting so Ill be ordering one as soon as Newegg gets them in stock.

Who else is ordering one as soon as they are released?

[demonkevy666]

I need to know how well the do in vista 64 bit.

[saki_bomber]

i have about $300 sitting on the side waiting so Ill be ordering one as soon as Newegg gets them in stock.

Who else is ordering one as soon as they are released?

I might, depending on the benches

[slim142]

I hope the rumors are right and that this time it will kick ass.

[flippin_waffles]

I have to move from s939 and agp, so i'm not sure if i'll go now, or wait for AM3. Probably go with AM2+ since i'm sure it'll be cheaper over all.

[roofsniper]

ill have it before the pitch.

[YukonTrooper]

I need to know how they perform first. Plain and simple.

[Sentential]

At this point I'm locked into some kind of AMD platform, so I will have one as soon as its feesbile to get in retail stores.

[charged3800z24]

well, since I have a Phenom fetish as of late.. I know I will.. just to play with it.. If i7 wasn't so dang expensive to build, i'd get one too.. I might anyway.. Nut I have a Asus M3A79-T Deluxe waiting on Phenom II anyhow...

[flippin_waffles]

It doesn't matter to me how it performs really. I've no doubt it'll have excellent power numbers, and that'll work for me because it'll definitely be a step up from my current stuff. And Intel can shove their silicon straight where the sun don't shine, so that takes care of that option.

[jaredpace]

Looks like it performs similar to yorkfield.

[SkullCracka]

I will be in line. also video ill be looking for 2 more toxic 3870's to give me quadfire.

[Stoner133]

I'm waiting on my bailout check from Obama, if he doesn't give us one then I'll wait till the taxes come back. But one is defenetly in my future. This will give me some time to check the benchies and maybe for the price to drop a little first. Everything else is ready just need to drop it into the socket.

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

I'll be getting one if the price point is there. That said, I won't pay over $300 for the chip. In all likelihood, I'll wait until we know how it performs under vista x64 as others have pointed out.

I have a sb700 mobo and will probably be using that to OC the chip.

I'll just hope i can get 4.0 ghz w/ a xigmatek 1283. That would actually put the system ahead of my q6600 @ 3.6 ghz on water.

[Titan7171]

Im hoping for a nice improved clock for clock performance over current Phenoms and getting 3.6-3.9ghz would be pretty nice for overall improvement over these Agena cores.

I just ordered a 4850x2 today also, upgrading from my current HD2900XT

[Brother Esau]

Maybe me but probably not............Got some Macki Powered Speaker Monitors & Presonus FireBox to buy first thats about $700.00

[EniGmA1987]

Well for me I will get one right away because whether it performs way better than current Phenoms or not, because it would still be an improvement over my dual core Opteron. But if the price gouging is too much the first month, I will just wait 2 or 3 months to get it and save some money.

[Particle]

Guilty. I'll buy one as soon as I see it is available and under $300.

[TiTON]

I will be sure to get the chip right when it comes out. I'm in socal, so it will be next day, unless they decide to ship it from East coast :P

And if I still have some LN2 left over, it will go subzero right away

Ton

[qurious63ss]

I'll get one if it is at least 10% faster then Ci7 and overclocks to at least 4.5ghz on air while costing around $250.

[Sparky]

Since I'm waiting for AM3 it may be a little while longer for me but yeah I plan to get one fairly soon, just wait a week or two for the initial price shock to blow by.

[chew*]

I won't be willing to make a decision till I see am2+, ddr2 with PH II compared to AM3, ddr3 with PH II. I have a feeling that the "REAL" boards will be released as ddr3 variants. Providing how long they have had to play with 790 chipset they should be able to make some really solid boards and had plenty of time to work out the bugs.

If you look at intels lineup of motherboards the DDR 3 variants offered all the bells and whistles compared to the ddr2 variants.

[Kayin]

Got serious GPU setup to buy first. Then we'll see.

[Oldguy932]

I will probably be buying one to two of the 940's when they are released and then build a completely new system when AM3 cpu's are released because my testing/benching addiction hasn't gotten any attention since this summer.

[dinos22]

usually the best steppings were some of the first few batches released so if there is a lot of users buying and reporting which batches overclock in what way it should be fairly clear which is the gem batch

the other issue will be tolerance to cold
i have my doubts about ALL CPUs being able to handle it easily

if ppl OC certain batches and really do consistently start hitting decent clocks like close to 6GHz on LN2 and efficiency is competitive against Intel in 3DMARK01/03/05/06/AM3/Vantage (very important) then yeah for sure

i dont think they will be anywhere near as good for SuperPi...totally expecting them to not compete there