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Ok, let us look at AMD's roadmap and see what we can expect until the K9 CPUs hit for the AMD64 CPUs.

There are no more Socket 754 CPUs coming out that use AMD64 technology. As for Socket 939, expect:
Athlon 64 4000 (2.6GHz, 512KB Cache 2) by Q105
Athlon 64 4200 (2.8GHz, 512KB Cache 2) by Q205
Athlon 64 FX-55 (2.6GHz, 1MB Cache 2) by Q105
Athlon 64 FX-57 (2.8GHz, 1MB Cache 2) by Q205

For Socket 940, expect:
Opteron 152, 252, and 852 (2.6GHz, 1MB Cache 2) by Q105
Opteron 154, 252, and 852 (2.8GHz, 1MB Cache 2) by Q205

The K9 series will be launched Q305.
Expect the following CPUs for Socket 900:
Opteron 166, 266, and 866 (Dual 2.0GHz cores with 1MB Cache 2 each) by Q305
Opteron 168, 268, and 868 (Dual 2.2GHz cores with 1MB Cache 2 each) by Q305
Opteron 170, 270, and 870 (Dual 2.4GHz cores with 1MB Cache 2 each) by Q305
Opteron 172, 272, and 872 (Dual 2.6GHz cores with 1MB Cache 2 each) by Q405
Opteron 174, 274, and 874 (Dual 2.8GHz cores with 1MB Cache 2 each) by Q106
Athlon 64 FX with dual core technology by Q405
Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 Mobile with dual core technology by Q106

As you see, AMD will most likely hit over 3GHz per core by Q206. You can expect, however, that AMD will upgrade to the K10 series by mid-2007 in order to use the DDR3 technology that will come out in 2006. After that, AMD will utilize the K11 series with XMS RAM. It should be down in price by then.

what with the use of cache 2? technically it is Level 2 cache or (L2; L2 cache)

Cache 2 is easier to say.

good thing we are typing here Can it be harder than L2? heh

Well, some people on the forums are used to the term Cache 2. If you want me to say L2 Cache from now on, I can.

I have noticed people here using "cache 2" I am just not used to calling it that call it what you will

It's just a shorter way of putting it

how is it shorter than say 512k L2??? Instead you type 512k of cache 2, yeah