Here's a little teaser....

[KTE]

Any latest scores here?

If you guys can show the highs and lows of the processor when you get time (thanks), I'm just interested in the raw architectural power and weaknesses based on the specifications I know of it. AMD engineers seem to think its a major overhaul and are happy with it, and they aint no dummies but pioneers.

One thing: I 'aint a corporation or enterprise worker dealing with database centers and tons of servers (Uni student yet but do work with them at hospital), but I clearly understand the difference in server benchmarking and desktop: two different ball games. They are unequivocally very different to one another, as servers usually tend to perform very differently based on application and software optimization (in-house usually). I know it from the medical center I work in part-time for experience which is a sub-department of the government, and they have their own engineers, analysis, system setups and software which they base their analysis and reports on.

Just hope you can sort out this core revision mess once and for all -> reconcile all the info spreading around rather than leaving it for 3rd 4th 5th parties to make sense of, which they can never (missing common sense you know ) and then it all turns haywire into a pig farm.

Movieman, bro, thanks for keeping it a little sane and yeah, I realize reality from fanfare very well. People die all the time every second, some more fortunate with better lives than most others in non-Occidental nations. ANY loss is always unfortunate though. My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved.

K10: Last I heard (well I sent buck loads of emails ya know ) from my uncle whose worked in this enterprise business for long so is in direct contact by technology firm reps on all sides where need be especially second quarter where his company departments usually upgrade systems (though I get no answers ), the rep dealing with him at AMD was saying its upcoming chips outperform Intels for general business, high performance, Int and FP intensive computing (yes all) based on price/performance, performance/watt, and they will have 2.5GHz delivery parts by end of year (Opteron - which is only what his corporation and their affiliates wanted). This is roughly what Dell reps said to him aswell.

Dave, Steve or anyone "informed" know if there's any truth in that?