Socket AM3 chips show up in the UK

[Buddy J]

Socket AM3 chips show up in the UK (http://icrontic.com/news/socket-am3-chips-show-up-in-the-uk)

[AlexDeGruven]

Eagerly awaiting some benchmarks/performance data on these. AMD did a great job with dual-channel and integrated memory controllers. I'm hoping they do as well with three-channel and start giving Intel a proper run again.

[Thrax]

The Phenom II and the Core i7 already have vastly more bandwidth they can use on dual channel and/or DDR2 configurations. This will push the Phenom a few percentage points ahead in applications that are particularly cycle-sensitive, but it won't be anything to write home about.

AMD is firmly #2 until Bulldozer. God help them if that chip is mediocre too.

[MiracleManS]

Well, if there was an appropriate name for what their processor-to-take-down-Intel is to be named, that's it.

[AlexDeGruven]

Well, if there was an appropriate name for what their processor-to-take-down-Intel is to be named, that's it.

Let's hope it does. I was a fan of the hammer line, too. When I saw that Opterons were being labeled Sledgehammer, I had to get a pair.

[Komete]

Amd seems to be having a little tick tock going on in their gpu's and their CPU's.

26XX's Kinda sucked
38XX's aye, Not bad
48XX's Nice


Phenom's, kinda sucked
Phenom II's. aye, not bad..
???????, Nice! ???? (HOPEFULLY)

[DrLiam]

AMD is firmly #2 until Bulldozer. God help them if that chip is mediocre too.

Haha that's a great working name. Nice to see they have a sense of humor about it. :]