K10 Scores starting to surface

[JumpingJack]

Don't leave out the most important indicator: Henri Richard up and quit right before the K10 is to launch. Says it all right there.

I don't read too much into this, other than to say -- top execs leave for various reasons, and Richard's departure, especially the timing, subjects the event to an enormous amount of speculation.

My underlying point is that we simply are still in the dark, this back-alley bench is the most data was have had to date, and it consisted of Cinebench, CPUMark, and SP1M... we have various people making strong but non-data backed claims of trouncing this or failing that...

Having said that, this data did originate on Coolaler's site... that name alone attaches a certain degree of credibility to the results based past experience and on a reputation some of which was built on this site. However, it is still not sanctioned, and fails some basic principles, such as clearly spelling out all the details necessary to reproduce the results -- and, most importantly, the stepping is ambigous at best ... it is none-the-less-fun to debate.... but this is such a hot topic, I approach this with a high degree of trepidation. Do not underestimate the degree of importance this product is to AMD, they are betting the farm on it and, frankly, I prefer to give them the benefit of the doubt.