Oliverda yes, 1.35 is rated stock though as has been shown, it's a bit erring on the side of caution on AMD's part since these chips undervolt very nicely as well as overclock with little or no voltage bump to some very surprising frequencies.

Yeah GTA IV seems to be buggy i'll admit, but it happened to be what i've been killing time playing latey as well as the fact that it has an in game bench. Though as i was watching task manager during benches on second display i did notice a couple things.

One, during the bench all four cours have the load split pretty evenly across them.

Two, the benchmark cpu utilization report seems to show the MAXIMUM cpu load, not the average load. From what i saw the cpu load was staying between 40 and 50%, largely only jumping up to the reported load a few times during the benchmark, so something to take into consideration. But yes i need to bench some other games, and have been working towards reinstalling everything to that end

Zucker, i am very very pleased to be able to provide these surprisingly delightful results, thanks for the interest and to everyone else as well for the enthusiasm and interest in the performance of the latest from AMD. Ill admit i've been less than unbiased towards AMD in the past but i'm trying to stay objective here and let the results speak for themselves. I also think it important to consider that the phenom II's and dragon platform was not aimed at the performance crown, but more mainstream market with room for us overclocking OCD types or "enthusiasts" if you will. AMD seems to look more at the entire picture in terms of cost, upgrade paths, power consumption, power efficiency as well as performance, and they have shown in my mind anyway remarkable improvements over the Phenom 1 chips all around. The power consumption clockability and performance was even a suprise to AMD's own people from what i've read so their is only room for refinement, these are just the early chips that are popping up with 4-4.5ghz air clocks and 6.2 LN cooled. So 5 with water is looking promising.

Which i plan to start working on very soon. =)

Also pushing past 1.5 on air doesn't seem to show results that scale well, however as others have said these chips adore the cold.


But for now i need to hit my own sleep button as i've been stress tested for 24h now =P Tomorrow i will be finishing up and posting game benchs and start pushing the clock up a bit, tomorrow seems like a good day to bench 3.8.