Phenom II X4 980, 3.7GHz

[Klarko]

You are right of course, AMD should just have canceled their production, sold their fabs and lied down to die in 2006 when Intel took the lead, just as Intel should have done when K7 and K8 was released.

I see it as a "why not" release. Maturing process is apparently allowing better yields so what have they got to lose releasing it?

It's an upgrade path if you are already on AMD and didn't want to overclock.

I still have a 940 BE with 8gb of ddr2 memory behind it. I can't tell the difference between it and my 1366 platform for most things.

You guys are taking what I said the wrong way. I just think AMD should be focusing on BD and stop pushing it back.