Depends...
Naturally, a few things willing improve. The 890/990 wasn't that bad to begin with. I wouldn't mind seeing it carry on for awhile personally. But none of it will matter much if the CPU won't perform worth anything on it's end.
Like with the Bulldozer, I knew from my first experience with Phenom, it's better to wait for the 2nd-3rd Gen chip to be on the safe side, thanks to teething issues. I doubt AMD saw the whole TLB Erratum saga approaching after release. After B2 and B3 stepping, things changed for the better. It may not have been a barn burner, but Phenom eventually became a real value and powerful chip for what it was. And during that time, they went from one chipset to the next, improving as they went along.
Vishera (Enhanced Bulldozer) should be out by Q3 next year. If they don't improve things by then, AMD will be in serious trouble. In fact, I'd go as far as to say, they should just sell their stock to Intel or ARM and close their doors if things haven't changed by then. I personally have my reservations about a 8 core chip, when they haven't shown that it's worth having anything more than a 6 cores at this point. But if they intend to increase performance, they better think about the here and now, and focus more attention to single thread performance. That's what biting them in the rear.
Naturally, a few things willing improve. The 890/990 wasn't that bad to begin with. I wouldn't mind seeing it carry on for awhile personally. But none of it will matter much if the CPU won't perform worth anything on it's end.
Like with the Bulldozer, I knew from my first experience with Phenom, it's better to wait for the 2nd-3rd Gen chip to be on the safe side, thanks to teething issues. I doubt AMD saw the whole TLB Erratum saga approaching after release. After B2 and B3 stepping, things changed for the better. It may not have been a barn burner, but Phenom eventually became a real value and powerful chip for what it was. And during that time, they went from one chipset to the next, improving as they went along.
Vishera (Enhanced Bulldozer) should be out by Q3 next year. If they don't improve things by then, AMD will be in serious trouble. In fact, I'd go as far as to say, they should just sell their stock to Intel or ARM and close their doors if things haven't changed by then. I personally have my reservations about a 8 core chip, when they haven't shown that it's worth having anything more than a 6 cores at this point. But if they intend to increase performance, they better think about the here and now, and focus more attention to single thread performance. That's what biting them in the rear.
[citation][nom]jtt283[/nom]I would like to have seen a comment about the MemOK feature of the Sabertooth though, as it is another useful feature that distinguishes this board from the others in the roundup.[/citation]I tried it to recover from a bad O/C, believing it would temporarily lower the actual settings without changing the programmed settings. I was wrong, using it deleted my programed settings. So rather than fuss about how it sort of works but not as well as expected, I ignored it.
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