Quote Originally Posted by tifosi View Post
Well yes, the parts are indeed different. However, your point was it would be shipped to OEM's and retail wouldn't see any (if at all). Unless it is a OEM special, like the 960T, where AMD clarified as much, i don't have a reason to believe that the 95W chip won't be seen in retail. If you look at it, Phenom II 945 is merely locked version of 940 at lower TDP. This being FX, i don't think AMD would muck about.
Well the 945 was later in the C3 revision a plain, normal 95W part. The first 940/945 models with 125W were still C2. Nothing exciting about that, that's the normal process/stepping optimizing benefit. If you want to compare it to FX, then my point would be that the 8120 95W model will be scarce as hen's teeth in etail, because it will be an OEM only model and etail=we have to live with the 125W part or the 8100 95W model, instead. Then next year, when they'll launch 8170, there's maybe enough 95W 8120 for everybody. We'll see...