Here's a little teaser....

[dave_graham]

Dave: In AMD nomenclature, *1 steppings are no different than any other steppings in terms of performance. That's a trait that's reserved for Intel procs . In fact, some of the best performing AMD cpu's EVER have been *1. If people had been quoting b1 performance, those procs will be exactly the same clock for clock as retail

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=150

go back one post.

B1 is DVT and not production release.

dave