Quote Originally Posted by gundersausage View Post
"The Barcelona desktop line, the Phenom, should therefore fare better than K8 when competing with the Core 2. Nevertheless, an average increase of 14% will not be sufficient to surpass a Core 2 at equivalent frequencies, especially with the upcoming arrival of the Penryn which will have a surplus of performance compared to Core architecture."
The review looks good, exactly and ONLY EXCEPT FOR this sentence.

It has around 14% for "K10 applications" on an opteron machine. What means, that you are locked to 666MHz ECC on memory.

The probable common memory for Phenom will be 800MHz non-ECC.

If someone here can risk on saying that it's NOT expected to improve even more, please tell me and show the proof. Otherwise, this is an astonishing machine for server and hpc market, as is seen in the other review AT Anandtech, and showing promisse (of more than 14-15% of improve in average) when it's about the future desktop version of it.

And with clocks already improving.

I want two! But I do prefer two Montreals.