TechReport on Barcelona

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The only question is why would someone buy 1st revision chips NOW when in 2-3 months we'll see the good ones coming out?

that's the whole point that many people don't understand... in serverland there is always a rule to buy cpu n-x you never buy the best performer.

in other words for AMD it is enough to have 2.0-2.3-2.5 server parts, the amount of sold highest cpu's is minimal. not like the desktop parts where there are plenty of idiots buying the top bin.

even if a new stepping will arrive it won't be much faster clock/clock. it will have other main improvements like power consumption and improved clock speed.

Reality bites again. No miracle chip. How...unexpected...

@shintai when are you going to stop all those idiots comments each 5 minutes. Yes it is due to g0 that there is a huge drop in powerconsumption against B3. What the hell is a power rating of a desktop chip doing on a newsforum of an AMD server chip, stay happy and post only on the INTEL fanboy subforum.

and for the chip itself, it is more than decent and a nice competitor for current offerings when the speedbump is there in a few weeks, the only problem is that it is a few months late, let's see what you're favorite vendor will bring after this 45nm die shrink. Barcelona has a lot of room to improve. clock/cache/memory/shrink/split powerplain not to forget the HTT3 that is very interesting on a +2 socket system.