Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
3 days till we see if shanghai delivers or not.
Meh... Cant they quicly switch Shanghai release to Deneb release

Anyway, those so called 'victories'... Especially Mhz, it's indeed pointless since it highly depends on the architecture as well. As less I understand from architectural CPU designs, I do know that. Prescott for example could end up very high regarding Mhz but in the end it would bite in the dust against an AMD FX/Opteron clocked untill the general wall.

Also it depends what the architecture was meant to do in the first place. First IMC is useless when it's meant for desktops, but it ain't for servers. Same as HT and 64-bit. But K8 was meant for servers, and if you can push it to desktops it's only good. No one gets hurt by having those features and it only pushes other technologies for dektop just that bit further (like more 64-bit Windows/program options). Also features as HT, 64-bit and IMC's, albeit maybe not needed at that point, only favor (in this case) AMD since you're more future ready so to speak. With HT you've for a long time no bandwith problems, with 64-bit you satisfy the very few customers who do use it, but you dont have to do it later on either, it's from the 'to-do' list.