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You do know you have quoted a link that supports my position and not yours ?

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Unfortunately due to changes in the VRM requirements for Conroe, no current LGA-775 motherboards will work with the new processor.

There is a lot of concern about the availability of Conroe, as Intel has only committed to around 25% of its mainstream and high end desktop processor shipments being Conroe by the end of this year. After Dell and HP buy up all the Conroes they will want for their systems, there simply may not be any left for the end user to buy in the channel market. Alternatively, there may end up being some supply in the channel market but at significant markups due to a shortage. It's availability that AMD is counting on to dull the impact of Conroe's launch.
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You claimed that *Intel* is already ramping "obviously as fast as humanly possible", and like I told you, they don't have to do anything to ramp more than switch a mask set. All the other raw materials are the same. And meanwhile, you are backpeddling and trying to find a bottleneck in the ramp process that might make you look just a little less stupid than you already do. It's actually quite humorous watching you squirm.

You do know the above is also happening only in your imagination, vivid and highly amusing though it is too. You have taken one sentence out of context and made a fairy sand castle out of it.

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Conroe is obviously being ramped as fast as humanly possible now and no amount of blue wet dreams by you will change that ! You think Intel want to produce Netburst for a minute longer than they have to ?
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The second statement is the fundamental validation of the first out of which you have spun quite a yarn. Obviously new motherboards are one bottleneck but there must be others at Intel but I would not and *did not* hazard even a guess as to what they are as it would only sound like baseless FUD which is your style but not mine. This btw is your answer which I don't think is remotely valid or applicable given all the rave reviews.


If they wanted to do a 100% conversion overnight, they could. It's all about the amount of risk they are willing to incur early in the cycle of a new product.


Another strange 'feature' of the Conroe ramp is that P-D ramps at the same time which is a very strange thing to do on your obsolete architecture. There is one obvious explanation for all of this but I won't say it *without evidence* but you can probably guess it .