Official AMD Barcelona Thread

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http://www.supermicro.com/products/m...00P/X7DB8+.cfm

It is Blackford I assume. The boost in scores is most linked to the new compiler I believe. Computex troubles, maybe it's AMD being funny again like in the past. Or not.

Thanks for looking up the mobo. Yeah, compiler, and tweaking the degree of hardware pre-fetching apparently boosted int_rate nicely. So Seaburg should provide some more...


Re: Computex & "AMD fun", I don't think so... folks like to draw an analogy to the K7 thing, but this time AMD is already on record with 2.6GHz "simulations", Henri's early boasts (although he changed to pessimism in early June), PR boasts (yes some of those claims have already been busted), so what is the point in making people think you have a lot of problems, if you don't ?

It can't be good for business.

I wonder at what point in time over the next 2 months (assuming the 'launch' by mid-Aug is correct) the actual clock speeds for launch will become definitively known?

The Q2 CC & following Analyst Day in late July would provide opportunities to disclose them.