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To: eracer who wrote (151812)	2/24/2005 10:26:41 PM
From: dougSF30	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Hopefully it is ready in time for the Smithfield reviews. Surely you jest. Smithfield is already going to get trashed in reviews. It's a 3.2GHz 1MB L2 part! It'll lose to Sempron in games, for crying out loud. Anyhow, as I said to Joe, I don't trust this chart. Mistakes are evident (the Winchester thing), so why believe any of it? Generally VR-zone cobbles together rumors from other sites and makes a story out of it, with no attribution of sources.

To: eracer who wrote (151812)	2/25/2005 1:21:44 AM
From: Petz	Respond to of 275872

A much better response to Smithfield would be dual-core A64 FX "Toledo." Yea, I know it still says Q3, but its almost a certainty that Dual Core Opterons will arrive in Q2 before Smithfield. I believe the dual core FX part is simply a dual core Opteron in the S939 socket. FX is a low-volume part so a launch at the end of Q2 should be doable. The "real" dual-core desktop parts are not on that roadmap and are probably dual 512K, not dual 1M. The wide range of frequencies given (1.6 to 2.4) is indeed odd for the FX line, since it is already low volume. I think the range is meant to indicate that AMD does not know yet what rating is achievable at or prior to Smithfield. Petz