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"The (Athlon 64) FX 51--There's some value in that new technology, but at this point in time we felt the 3200+ fit our lineup much better," Oliver said. "While the 8000Z is great for gaming, it's not going to be our gaming platform. This is an overall performance platform."

Translation - we don't want to make Intel mad by selling a gaming product based on the best CPU available for gaming. After all, we are in bed with them on the Itanic server chip, so we can't sell an Opteron based competitor, either.

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