Quote Originally Posted by Jacky View Post
no not necessarily, the improvement from "B00 chip from May to a B02" is probably due to some important parts being turned of in the B00 (maybe L3 or even L2) - the fact that *some parts were turned off* was already stated somewhere - thus it tells us nothing about the retail barcelona.
and most agree that coolaler's results show a B01 that is going to launch on sept. 10, however we don't know if the results aren't fake.
but don't forget that gary also said this about the results:


6 more days until we find out
My comment was solely dealing with the credibility of Gary Key, nothing else. He was a long time bencher here on XS and was offered a job over at Anand. The man is fully credible.

Personally I don't care if Phenom/Barcelona is a Core2duo destroyer or not, as long as it is decently competitive, and overclocks well. I am plainly a Amd fan but not a fanboy, and will choose their products over Intel's 90% of the time. I'm glad only server chips are out in September, allows time to ramp up the clocks for Phenom. I've stated in posts some time ago that Amd had serious issues with k10 process, and I'm hopeful these will be ironed out for the Phenom launch late 07/early 08...


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