Good find! Seemed like a PR ad for AMD to get people like me hopes up, and wallets ready.
The other one with the 1700 quid chip would be a great buy If I was in the server business, but I know nothing about servers.
I did get Shanghai and Deneb mixed up, and your right about Semptron and equivelents. Marketing, same with video cards too. I think they should market last years high end as mid-range, mid to low, and eliminate the new production of new low end sub-$100 graphics cards and CPUs. Thats another thread though.
From What I've read, I get the impression that the new Shanghai might be slightly faster than the Agena. And overclock better. I'll bet its around 20% faster, and on par with the Core 2 Q9550, and priced about the same, ($400 to $500 USD range) I was hoping for something that is in the same game as Intel, but I've been reading alot about the new i7, and it looks like its a generation ahead of Phenom. Did you guys get the new Holiday edition of Maximum PC in the mail today too? Maxiumum PC had a benchmark comparison between Phenom and i7. Good read, but there is a lot of other new articals on the web too.
Remember when the AMD DDR2 stuff came out? Both the AM2 and 939 4800x2 where benching the same, but the AM2 was priced higher. The FX-60 and FX-62 where basically the same, and the DDR vs DDR2 wasn't much of a gain either. Right now, if they released the new chip, and it was, say, 30% faster than the top shelf AMD 9950, its still at least 20% slower than than the new $1000 Intel i7-965 extreme. And thats before overclocking, "turbo" mode, and tri channel DDR3. In a few weeks we'll read the reviews and see....
In Vancouver BC money grows on trees. Its legal there too. You just can't get caught smuggling it over the border.....