More ouch for AMD

[EarlZ]

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All Phenoms defective, many Phenoms reviewed had overclocked (less underclocked) northbridge (2GHz instead of 1.8GHz) than production parts which inflated performance, and the bug fix will lower performance even more.

We reported earlier today that a problem with AMD's quad-core processors has limited supply of "Barcelona" Opterons, but that is only part of the picture. Because the hardware bug—known as an erratum—affects all revisions and clock speeds of AMD's quad-core processors, it affects the newly introduced Phenom 9500 and 9600 processors, as well. And although AMD is no longer shipping quad-core Opterons to major server vendors and general customers, it is shipping Phenoms to large PC builders and distributors. In fact, AMD knew about the erratum before the Phenom product launch...


...AMD claims it has handed off the BIOS workaround to motherboard makers for implementation, and Saucier told us the company's guidance to partners included an enable/disable option in the BIOS. AMD also has plans for an update to its Overdrive overclocking utility for Windows that will allow users to toggle the erratum fix on and off. Saucier said AMD's thinking here is that savvy users may choose higher performance over the relatively small risk of experiencing a system hang due to the TLB problem...


...We don't yet have a BIOS with the workaround to test, but we've already discovered that our Phenom review overstates the performance of the 2.3GHz Phenom. We tested at a 2.3GHz core clock with a 2.0GHz north bridge clock, because AMD told us those speeds were representative of the Phenom 9600. Our production samples of the Phenom 9500 and 9600, however, have north bridge clocks of 1.8GHz. We've already confirmed lower scores in some benchmarks.

Given everything we've learned in the past few days, our review clearly overstates Phenom 9600 performance, as do (more likely than not) other reviews of the product. We can't know entirely by how much, though, until we can test a Phenom system with the TLB erratum workaround applied.

[vladmire]

too bad... nevertheless, amd's time will come. paabot lang ko... hehehe...

[brown_dog]

AMD is still recovering from its purchase of ATI

[AMD_infinium05]

oh yeap!

[vipvip68]

I've had it with amd na gyud... I don't think Intel is gonna let their guard down again like they did sa P4...

After buying AMD from K6 up to Athlon X2... My next PC will probably be a C2Q.

[ninzska21]

omfg...

AMD is in deep shit....



they havent fully recovered form ATI.. and Intels C2D and C2Q is raping them..

more debt "utang" for AMD

http://www.dailytech.com/AMDs+Large+...rticle7036.htm

while intel is delaying its 45nm chip to counter AMD's Tri-Core

http://www.megagames.com/news/html/h...iplecore.shtml

while DAMMIT [ATI+AMD] is still leveling the playingfield with Nvidia.....

damn.. AMD's gonna think something fast... so that they can get out to the light~~~ ALIVE

^^

[ninzska21]

I've had it with amd na gyud... I don't think Intel is gonna let their guard down again like they did sa P4...

After buying AMD from K6 up to Athlon X2... My next PC will probably be a C2Q.

yeah netburst really suckz

[butitoy]

AMD is still recovering from its purchase of ATI

yes.

hopefully they will reap great bucks with its new and upcoming 2GPU in 1pcb graphics card solution.

[butitoy]

omfg...

AMD is in deep shit....



they havent fully recovered form ATI.. and Intels C2D and C2Q is raping them..

more debt "utang" for AMD

http://www.dailytech.com/AMDs+Large+...rticle7036.htm

while intel is delaying its 45nm chip to counter AMD's Tri-Core

http://www.megagames.com/news/html/h...iplecore.shtml

while DAMMIT [ATI+AMD] is still leveling the playingfield with Nvidia.....

damn.. AMD's gonna think something fast... so that they can get out to the light~~~ ALIVE

^^

and heres more: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ces-inte...,news-326.html

Intel’s upcoming Skulltrail platform promises almost divine performance thanks to its dual quad-core architecture. At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, Intel’s tech guru Francois Piednoel showed off a prototype Skulltrail-enabled Alienware system by blazing through several benchmarks.

he Alienware system used two 45 nanometer quad-core processors that were watercooled and overclocked to 4 GHz. Piednoel ran Cinebench in six seconds flat and Cinebench 10 in just 35 seconds. To top it off he managed to stall the Airbus A380 in Flight Simulator - to spare us from seeing the plane crash, he canceled out of the game just before slamming into the ground.

Piednoel proved that the platform and CPUs were very overclockable by also demonstrating an identically-built system that was running on standard air cooling. That machine also ran at 4 GHz.


very bad news for the green team.

[ninzska21]

ouch

i saw the skullstrail at Intel Spring 2007 [i guess]

hehehe

but yeah the casing ROCKZ + the chip

hehehehe...