Quote Originally Posted by james333 View Post
If this were true, wouldn't it be a good thing though? For AMD to hold back and rearrange things to compete with SB-E is a great leap in a positive direction for all the theories that are behind BD at the moment. If AMD can release a processor that can compete with Intels latest offering, it means that they have gained massive ground from the position they were in with Thuban / Daneb, these processors (which I own / owned) were awesome for price over performance but always a generation behind Intel, if they reach a point where they are head to head even if they dont quite beat Intel, they would have made up a very respectable bit of ground since last year.
Well it's already officially delayed till August, which sucked from my standpoint since I was going to be upgrading to a Bulldozer, and I could've used it for review testing :\ Boards coming out, but not BD, means I had to spend 1/2 my BD budget on a Thuban I mean yea you're right if delaying it means boosting performance in order to compete, but there are two things about that: First is if it really IS delayed until September, or the translation to English resulted in some confusion. Second, unless they are doing some sort of core-architecture tweaks, my understanding was they were just boosting clocks on the chips to get a bit more oomph out of them (be that by tweaking or just raising multipliers). If that's the case, assuming they had a large batch of the current revision, I think they should've released what they had and sold those to make up some profits. Then in August they could release the enhanced models for people who have no problem with waiting (or forking out cash to upgrade again lol), and show more of the true performance of BD :\

Just my 2 cents.