Ati's new card is right around the corner this mid November. What will it be called?? The 2950 or the 3850?? Amd is coming also coming out with their Quad core Phenom Processors this month and a new motherboard, the 700 series (the 790fx is on my wishlist)

Anyway the point of this forum is does anyone kow the date, specifications and price of all of this new hardware?? I am an Ati fanboy

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You're missing out on alot then.

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What do you mean missing out? ON WHAT??

[QUOTE="OPRFWrestler112"]On video cards that don't require a private nuclear reactor to power :P[/QUOTE]

Please, you aren't being realistic, All you need to power any card is an Ultra X3 1000w power supply

Here is a picture of the 700 series motherboards offered by ASus soon (got picture at http://www.techpowerup.com/index.php?42413 and I know its not a great picture)

And here is some news on the new Phenom Processors from http://www.pureoverclock.com/story1520.html

VR-Zone has compiled the launch date and relative specs regarding AMD's quad-core Phenom 9-series. According to the site, the quads will arrive in Nov/Dec while the Phenom FX will debut in Q1 '08. All chips are socket AM2+ compatible, 65nm and house 2MB L2 cache. The clock speeds range from 2.2GHz - 2.8GHz.

Phenom FX-82 will be clocked at 2.6GHz or higher while the faster FX-8x model could hit 3GHz. FX-82 DVT samples will be available in Q4 while production will kick off in Q1 2008 while FX-8x DVT sample and production is slated for Q2 2008. Phenom 9600 and 9500 clocked at 2.4GHz and 2.2GHz respectively will be the first quad-core Phenom processors to hit the market in Nov. Phenom 9700 clocked at 2.6GHz will come along slightly later in Dec. A faster iteration of the quad-core Phenom will come along in Q2 2008 while DVT samples will be available in Q1. Most likely, it will be called Phenom 9800 and clocked at 2.8GHz.

And if you want one of those new opterons click at the following link http://www.directron.com/amdquadcore.html

Are they only AM2+ or AM2 compatible. If there not AM2 compatible I'll be saying bye bye to AMD

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They are compatible with AM2. It says so on AMD's web site. Just search for phenom.

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This guy is correct the Phenoms are Am2+ compatable, and some will be for their socket f. Take a look at this chart from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Phenom

CodenameModelCoresClock
Frequency (GHz)L2 Cache
size (kB)shared L3
Cache size
(MB)TDP (W)HyperTransport
Speed (MHz)
per directionSocketAvailabilityPhenom FX[11]Agena FXFX-91[12]42.4-2.64x5122TBD1800Socket F+[12]Q1 2008FX-90[12]2.2-2.41600FX-8xTBD>=2000Socket AM2+Q2 2008FX-822.62000Q1 2008Phenom X4 / Phenom 9-SeriesAgena9xxx[13]42.x4x5122TBD>=2000Socket AM2+Q2 20089700[13]2.61252000December 20079600[13]2.4891800November 20079500[13]2.2Phenom X3 / Phenom 7-Series[11][14]Toliman[15]7700[16]32.53x512289?Socket AM2+Mar 20087600[16]2.3Phenom X2 / Athlon 6-Series[11]KumaGP-6800[17]22.4-2.82x5122892000Socket AM2+Q1 20086250[18]2.x65>=1600Q2 20086050[18]2.xGE-6600[17]2.345~1600Q1 2008GE-6500[17]2.1GE-6400[17]1.9Athlon X2Rana?2?2x512none??Socket AM2+Q4 2007

Another article to confirm to people that Phenoms are Socket AM2

At the top of the product lineup we have the Phenom FX processors (codenamed Agena FX). These processors will be quad-core only and run at the highest clock speeds in AMD's lineup, much like the current Athlon 64 FX. At the Quad FX introduction, AMD indicated that FX processors would be Socket-1207 only, simplifying its product lineup. Unfortunately, AMD has once again reversed its decision and Phenom FX processors will be available in both Socket-1207 and Socket-AM2 flavors.

The Phenom X4 and X2 processors are the sensible versions of the Phenom, these are the ones we will most likely be recommending out of AMD's lineup if history holds true. The X4 and X2 will be Socket-AM2/AM2+ only and are 100% backwards compatible with current AM2 motherboards.

The current Athlon 64 X2 has been renamed to the Athlon X2; given that both AMD and Intel offer 64-bit processors, dropping the 64 from the name makes sense. At the bottom of the list is AMD's Sempron, which is the only single core brand in the product lineup.

AMD hasn't updated us on other details for Phenom, which is a bit odd given how much more forthcoming AMD has been privately about other aspects of its microprocessor plans. Either AMD is doing its best to hide a rough ramp of Phenom or it is sitting on a very powerful weapon to combat Intel with, and we can't get any indication of which it is.

This article came from http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2987