Replies to post #21342 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[yourbankruptcy]

Mike, that's what Google returns when you search for that part:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=BX80546PG2800E

It doesn't smell like performance rating. I think it is what it is.

[HailMary]

All of the parts (2.8, 3.0 and 3.2) have the 'E' in
the 'frequency'. What's up with that? Are they doing an
AMD and now using an 'extreme' gigahertz nomenclature?

If I had to guess, it is still 2.8, 3.0, 3.2 Ghz and this is Intel's way of showing the 2.8Ghz on Prescott is better than 2.8Ghz on P4. If they don't distinguish this in some way, the clueless consumers will assume they are of comparable performance. In the past Intel avoided this by not having so much overlap of frequencies, but it appears they are in a small bind this time and they don't want Prescott to be devalued.

Thanks for you updates. I find them informative.