Here's a little teaser....

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i was hinting that performance was markedly improved vs. the B1 benchmarks that sheeple had been mindlessly quoting as production performance.

Dave: In AMD nomenclature, *1 steppings are no different than any other steppings in terms of performance. That's a trait that's reserved for Intel procs . In fact, some of the best performing AMD cpu's EVER have been *1. If people had been quoting b1 performance, those procs will be exactly the same clock for clock as retail