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Gamers will get their hands on the latest rigs available with AMD Opteron Processors, no FX60/62 here. Video cards will be 790GT for everyone. Games will include Counter-strike Source, Battlefield 2, Quake 4, FEAR, and UT2004. Amongst the various prizes to be won is a wonderful top of the range super duper Acer Ferrari Laptop. More details here.
Now compare that to the overclocked E6600 Conroe that Xtremesystems resident overclocker, Fugger, has managed to overclock to 4GHz. OK, it is an Engineering Sample, it was done using Vapochill and an unmodded 975X Intel motherboard, with no BIOS mods. The FSB was at a sky high 445MHz and the multiplier, a mere 9x. It is expected to do SuperPi in less than 13s, that more than twice faster than the FX62 above. You have to bear in mind that Engineering Sample are effectively worse performers than the final core - anyone remember early Clawhammer performance. AMD better bring the K8L quick.
congrats FUGGER...