AMD Shows Deneb (Phenom II) pictures of 6.2GHz CPUz etc

[Zucker2k]

ahh but I dont want my p5k-deluxe with ty pci-e. I want an upgrade to PCI-e so I can xfire If I desire with full speed. So I am going to have to get a mobo. As to whether q9550 will outperform a P2 thats pure speculation at this point no one really has that info yet. and, Please don't quote some review of server procs with limited tests because till we get them and test them we will not know anyting for sure.

So what happened to 5% performance advantage is a no biggie? Anyway, there are cheap intel boards too.

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.

welcome back from the rock you just crawled from; PII is NOT a competitor to Nehalem. Repeat; PII is NOT a competitor to Nehalem. What does this mean? It means if one owns a decent Intel board, they could upgrade to any number of E8xxx series or C2Q Q9xxx series processors. I mean, it's not science; if PII proves to annihilate everything in its path then you'll see people like me jumping ship, but so far, the part can't even beat a similarly clocked penryn. And penryns are drop-in chips for most Intel-platform-would-be upgraders. Sigh. I really needed that. Stop talking about $1K upgrades it just shows you haven't really been following what's going on.