Quote Originally Posted by JVguest View Post
K10 is a major upgrade, and very similar to core 2 but with 3 complex decoders instead of Core 2's 3 simple + 1 complex, has slightly weaker OOO and smaller L2+L3, but retains a larger L1 cache, better instruction fetch bandwidth and the IMC advantage. What K10 needs is clockspeed, there's nothing remotely mediocre about the architecture. The Spec numbers don't tell much at all, as K8 performance is similar in spec to core 2, but in real world heavy SSE2 use core 2 blows away K8 and typically outperforms it in other typical applications. Tomorrow we'll know how K10 performs (hopefully) but I expect very good performance (clock for clock) particularly in video encoding/decoding, games and pure number crunch applications. Too bad the launch clock speeds will be low. Looks like reliable motherboard availability will be low as well for some time too. So for now, Intel remains in the lead till early Q1 2008.
IF manufacturers bring bios updates with the phenom launch there will be more than enough motherboards