Quote Originally Posted by Periander6 View Post
Someone is a tool here all right.

If AMD were so terminally stupid to send out performance crippled parts for review 3 days before launch to tier-1 review sites, any potential customer would have to be an even bigger moron to ever trust such a bunch of clowns with critical server applications.

Fortunately AMD is not a bunch of terminal morons like you claim, and you are just spreading FUD.

tier 1 review sites? are you kidding me? since when has HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, or any other manufacturer even considered Anandtech, Tech Report or any other pro-sumer site when evaluating a platform for development and integration? got a hint for you....NEVER.

i'm definitely not contesting that AMD marketing completely fscked this launch. i'm contesting people who seem (in the face of evidence to the contrary that I've accurately provided) to assume that these folks have the gospel message for Barcelona...which is patently false.

where have i claimed that AMD is a bunch of "terminal morons...."? you must be confusing me for one of the wide variety of pernicious trolls present in this thread.... i had lunch with a Sr AMD FAE today...you think that if i though he was a moron i'd even entertain that?

wow....they never prepared me for this type of response in my degree program. (yes that's a thinly-veiled joke about my education...)

cheers,

dave