Quote Originally Posted by [XC] flat-four View Post
I seriously doubt that AMD would spend all this time developing a new processor and would gain this little. From a stricly logical viewpoint, this doesn't make sense. Also, this is Coolaler's site, but who are these people posting the screenshots? At least with THe Inq's article, we at least have someone to hold accountable.
Gary added some stuff:

1. Around 2.4GHz and higher you will want to run CAS4 1066 and at 3GHz+, we expect/estimate that 1333 CAS5 will come in handy. AMD is working very closely with the memory suppliers at this time to get low latency DDR2-1066 ready quickly and to start looking at DDR2-1333 next year before they worry about the switch to DDR3. Memory latencies are going to be a key with this CPU and the performance oriented consumer chipsets.

2. The current AM2+ boards are still immature from a driver/chipset viewpoint, at least to the point of not providing benchmarks yet, once they get closer, expect some numbers.

3. The lower speed Barcelonas on the server chipsets are not going to shine that well in a lot of consumer applications (against higher clocked Yorkfields, but that is not the target market right now), so AMD desperately needs to get the speeds up for this chip to show its true potential. Right now, its doing a lot better than what we saw at Computex and we understand the latest silicon is a marked improvement (several of the board guys were extremely pleased with the last samples) over the last spin we tested. The numbers will be out in a couple of weeks, some will be very happy, some will not, but at least the damn thing will finally be shipping.

p.s. Not trying to be vague, just until the final CPU samples are in and the green light is given by the board guys, no real point in guesstimating.