looking at various roadmaps some say the FX-55 will be on the 90nm core and will be out Q4 this year, however other say the FX-55 is scheduled for May this year (thus obviously still on the 130nm core)
Which one is correct?
EDIT: wanna wait for the lower end 90nm FX's (i.e the FX-55) which reports say should be hear 3Q (no doubt it willl be delayed) the fact that this core is supposed to scale upto the FX-63 which will supposedly run at 3.4Ghz then the FX-55 should be a good overclocker. However I keep reading things stating that you will probably see FX-55 nearing 3GHZ but onyl after the first revision.
i'll copy something im reading atm
AMD also published the maximum heat dissipation for the Socket 939 – 105W. Considering that this number refers to the entire lifecycle of this socket, we have a reason to be optimistic. At least, this is much smaller than the maximum heat dissipation of the Prescott platform for the LGA775 (up to 120W) and Tejas (around 150W). Thus, this technology will probably allow reaching 2.8-3.0 frequency (although not in the first revision of the processor). This would give us a 4000+ or 4300+ model in the AMD nomenclature. Besides that, the new core may support SSE3 (in fact, besides Hyper-Threading-related instructions, nearly all other instructions have long had functional analogs in Extended 3DNow!; their support means only “teaching” the decoder to transform them into internal macro-ops). Of course, save for MWAIT and MONITOR instructions that refer to Hyper-Threading – the Athlon 64 doesn’t need them. We’ll probably also see support of DDR2 memory. However, the use of such memory will require new mainboards and a new processor form-factor.
why would this be? I don't want to have to wait even longer!
