Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
imho amd has to bring a hexa core to desktop if they what to stay competitive... just look how much "damage" a singelsocket bloomfield does in the dualsocket server market. In this market we talk about 4 cores + HT vs 8 real cores.
I dont know what's with the i7 stuff all the time? What does it have to do with this is anyway?

Any idea how small the market for i7 is in desktops? Hell, even Phenom does have a bigger market than that. Said this multiple times before, PhII does basicly have the things in house to regain a whole lot of market share, especially for enthusiasts, but i7's place is only with the enthusiasts.

i5 could be a way bigger danger, however that's like 9 months away. AMD has time enough to release eventual new revisions to improve Deneb's performance even more. They better do though before they've to lower prices to humiliating amounts.

For the pure performance i7 is very good, but you pay for that. And unless you really have to live by efficient computing and/or calculating things ASAP, i7 has no real place since even a good clocked dual core would be more than enough to do its job.

AMD has to release a hexa(+) core for servers, that's their main priority and make the architecture more efficient. HT is just fading out inefficiency, it works, now offence, but it doesnt mean AMD is nowhere without HT.