Quote Originally Posted by dave_graham View Post
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B1 is DVT and not production release.

dave
Yes, each successive stepping makes improvements on the cpu's but - like you say - the improvements are most likely reserved to fix erratas. Even production/retail cpu's contain erratas which may or may not be corrected. That being said, performance in b1 cpu's are basically identical to successive steppings with the exception of performance in VERY specific applications. B1 is not necessarily reserved for DVT as they're found in many OEM machines as well. By chance, do you have a pic of your cpu's? Just want to compare "notes" vs. the ones I have on hand