All this talk of K10 needing MHz to really fly as such is really baloney.

No cpu in history has managed to achieve better than linear scaling. All have shown linear scaling low down and then drop off from this when other system bottlenecks start to appear. True, a good CPU will not drop off as much but it will never improve with speed. To say it scales better than linear you are sort of getting a perpetual motion machine scenario here, or more power out than in.


Gary is no mug but a K10 at 3GHz will be 50% or less quicker than one at 2Ghz, not 60% or 100% or 100000000%.

Maybe he is saying it has a high IPC and so any increase in speed gives a good rate of return on total cpu power due to the IPC level. That is a reasonable arguement. Non-linear scaling is definitely not.

As for the actual scores, you get this all the time with video card releases, somebody posts some high score and somebody posts some low score and it is only when the proper reviews come out with "relevant" cpu's to what you and I can buy, should you form your opinion.

We just have to be patient and see.

Regards

Andy