Quote Originally Posted by MsB View Post
I LOL at all the speculation and crazy things said in these forums. I do love that I can come here and ususlly, I can get info far ahead of all the other forums but man guys get so intensley competetive over products. Let me put it this way, a different perspective if you will. If this product will hit 4ghz on air and be competitive in per clock performance, Than it already has almost all the previous AMD mother board owners bussiness because for 275 bucks they have a complete upgrade. Now for me I have q6600 and I've been considering an I7 however I'm not a, I Have to have top of the performance no matter what it costs kinda person. I like value and performance just like most OCers. I can buy a 200 dollar asus board with 3way xfire and all the stuff I could ever need and P2 for around $275.00. Thats a total of $475 since I already have lots of ddr2 and don't have to upgrade there I'm in cheap. Now if I want an equivelant I7 board I'm looking at around $325 buckeroonies and around $300 for the proc and, I have to pop for new 3 channel DDR3 memory set to get the most of the performance I7 has to offer.Now thats around 700-800 bucks for and upgrade. Times are getting rough in case you haven't looked around guys so, which can you guess most will buy even if at a 5 percent performance loss? Even if Intel lowers prices and the overall is $625-$725 which do you think most will buy? It's a no brainer. AMD is Back, it's about time.
You got it. Phenom II will hit Intel harder than anyone can imagine. It's perf/watt/$$ will be better than anything Intel has to offer today. With today's economy, how many people will be springing for $1K upgrades when they can buy a $250 proc to replace the one they have or buy a whole new platform for half the price?

With the money saved, you could buy an air conditioner to cool your room and not your cpu.