Quote Originally Posted by Formula350 View Post
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.

I agree in some respects but I also think about the feeling people must have had when they bought a Phenom I chip. Its almost like people were fooled by marketing (i'm talking about the average non forum using Joe) to buy these great new chips and get great performance when in reality they were a bit crappy. I didn't have one myself but i know someone who did and they were very disappointed, do you think as someone forking out £200 on a chip you would feel short changed by AMD if you got the early chip and within a month and a half they came out with a chip that rubbished the one you just paid for? I know the feeling of buying the best in the world then reading reviews 2 months later about something that demotes your hardware, im sure everyone here knows it too because we are enthusiasts and thats the nature of the speed of development that takes place in the field of our hobby.I was gutted when I spent £330 on my 5870, the fastest GPU ever and learned that soon there will be large improvements. Maybe I have gone off on a tangent here, sorry, my point is, do you really want something right now when you know its not quite as good as it could be? Would you buy a 5870 1 day before the release of the 6970?

I think we are all annoyed at AMD for being so quiet though, im watching markets as I hope to invest money in the near future so my questions consist of are AMD trying to improve something they know is sub standard and need to do all they can to increase stock performance, I mean, they sell a 1090t at 3.2ghz but they know they are all stable at 3.4, maybe 3.6, so are they making it so for instance a 3.2 BD will be sold at 3.4 to gain stock points on a SB chip? Or are they playing a game of wow factor where they are optimizing a stunning new method of calculations and needed a few more days to perfect it and the knock on effect is this delay

Are AMD clever in business or ashamed of what they can offer??

(I don't think they should be ashamed either way because I still look at the tube television and think - how the hell did they get a coaxial copper cable to translate a basic pulse into all that colour picture and sound!!!?? Amazing)