AMD to Stop Taking Orders for Athlon X2 in 2008

[tkpenalty]

Everytime I hear these things about AMD I get so sad and sentimental. I loved what that company had accomplished and is so sad to see such a beautiful company go. I hope they have some secret strategy.

About two years ago intel were getting their asses kicked, and they had no fanboys.... yet how sad was it that intel wasnt even near financial trouble... Well, i hope the Phenoms really become phenomenal after they fix the TLB Bug, i reckon AMD should have done this instead:

Improve K8 architecture > Release Athlon X4, while working on fixing the TLB bug. K8 is a great architecture, and it doesnt really make sense to me why they couldn't have done an X4, to bide time, why release the phenom when its not in a good position yet and get bad publicity?

 

[Triprift]

Intel had fanboys back then we were just really quiet cus we had nuthing to boast about and the fact intel is top now prooves times can change and Amd can still bite intel in the arse if they get complacent.

 

[eidairaman1]

Unless AMD kept fresh stock of those 2-core chips based on K10 in good quantity, it's unwise stopping the production of some of the current X2's. The Brisbane core is doing good in the market.

Well from looks of it 1MB brisbanes are due out. Now only if we could get a Brisbane 1MB BE CPU.

 

[Wile E]

I too was like you ECS - hrr hoo noo.

But to my opinion lately ECS is million times better than F..kng Gigabyte that I have. ECS answers your phone calls. Very courteous, patient in solving problems. Email service is also fantastic. Within 24 hrs ur Qs are answered.

With Gigabyte I am waiting for them to issue me a RMA(1 week).

The ECS NForce6MA does what it promised to do as stated in the manual and on their website. Though the cpu temps are off the board is rock solid stable for last 2 days. Most of all S3 and S4 state works as it should.

Hopefully they have a bios update for Phenoms.

Good luck with useful BIOS updates on that board. I had the ECS KA3-MVP, and bios updates were terrible. Some of them even removed features. Only one BIOS had CAS and Command Rate adjustments. I won't take a blind chance on another ECS board again.

 

[suraswami]

Good luck with useful BIOS updates on that board. I had the ECS KA3-MVP, and bios updates were terrible. Some of them even removed features. Only one BIOS had CAS and Command Rate adjustments. I won't take a blind chance on another ECS board again.

I am going to use this board for Media Center purposes. So I don't expect any of those features (if it is there welcome). Tight on a budget and this seems to do the work for me. I had high hopes on that Gigabyte board (K8N-SLI) when I got it on clearance for dirt cheap but failed me. May be I am unlucky. But that board has all the overclocking options.

Infact I returned the ECS KN1 SLI Lite board for this Gigabyte. ECS was $10 cheaper and equally clocked well. Had all the overclocking features (well most of them).