Phenom II info leaks out, AMD hints at something

[JumpingJack]

AMD should have unlocked the PII 920 and PII 925 too

Especially the PII 925, it would probably be able to reach higher clocks than the 940 and 920 cause of the lower heat dissipation.

My guess is another unlocked Phenom II clocked at 3.2GHz would follow a few months after that, maybe around April/May timeframe. But we'll see.

Don't get too stingy. Unlocked multipliers, especially on a serial interconnect backbone, at 300 bucks or less is a gift. If AMD has done one thing well over the years is catering to the enthusiast.

Unlocked multies is a gift, and getting them at low prices shows AMD's commitment to the advanced DIYer ... Intel should do a better job of embracing that market segment.

[Shintai]

Don't get too stingy. Unlocked multipliers, especially on a serial interconnect backbone, at 300 bucks or less is a gift. If AMD has done one thing well over the years is catering to the enthusiast.

Unlocked multies is a gift, and getting them at low prices shows AMD's commitment to the advanced DIYer ... Intel should do a better job of embracing that market segment.

If AMD was in the lead it would be 999-1499$ unlocked only.

Its just illusional different when your top CPU is a few 100$.

[JumpingJack]

If AMD was in the lead it would be 999-1499$ unlocked only.

Its just illusional different when your top CPU is a few 100$.

Very good point ... FX60, 62 were unlocked -- and as top dogs at their time were $1K cpus.. AMD produced the unlocked multi at the low price point for this very reason.

I remember when Intel and AMD locked up the multipliers, and there as a huge moan and groan from the enthusiast market. .... rightly so... then they realized it could be made into a selling point... hence, $1K CPUs with unlocked multies.

[Rammsteiner]

If AMD was in the lead it would be 999-1499$ unlocked only.

Its just illusional different when your top CPU is a few 100$.

Your '999$' part is a lot more correct than your '999-1499$' part though. You do however have a point there, but I never saw FX's above 1K really. That's Euro though, but we know how hardware prices were in those times compared to dollar prices. Shops obviously found dollar:euro= 1:1. Intel however goes nuts on certain Extreme Edition prices, even when AMD was the leading one. Then again Intel has different levels of their Extreme Editions (now) as well, you're not forced to pay >=1K to get one