Thanks for the effort guys! Must be crazy getting these working...

BTW fellas (everyone else), the results weren't amazing. The results were poor actually and obviously at least some were very buggy too. Here's what I've heard:
4 steppings so far - B0>B1>BA>B2 BA has the B1 fix. I'm hearing there should be only two steppings out to reviewers, the last two. Can you guys please run CPU-Z?

Dave I know you said you have a B1 but I'd like to see what CPU-Z reports according to core register values please. wPrime reports false frequencies many times, and usually I've seen it report BIOS frequencies and not current CPU frequency. But CPU-Z will report the current frequency given by PLLs/core. If you have buggy/faulty or unsyncd MB PLLs or BIOS, the frequencies will change and be messy (but CPU-Z will report that real-time).

What frequency do you guys get if you run this utility? http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/chkcpu.htm

I think I know how to recognize the stepping in CPU-Z:



F-2-2 : B2 core
F-2-A : BA core

That's as far as I can work out from AMD K10 PDFs. I know for sure that above screenshot is a B2 core BTW.

s7e9h3n/dave_graham: There's also something seriously wrong with the results/info there, your mem bandwidth and conflicting info in Sandra for one and then comparing Daves results around with those before, like those on Coolaler forums- they all differ. For reference, I ran this about 5 months back on a single core 3.4GHz P4 DDR400.


An Conroe 2.4GHz nicely beats that score. How can these quads get 5.9 in WEI if the encryption/decryption is so slow while very similar to one of the tests ran to determine the end score, and that P4 doesnt even get 3.8 in WEI?

Dave, the 1573KB/s for WinRAR... well E6320 at 2330MHz gets 1302KB/s.

Also, Steven, your memory bandwidth score was the same as a Pentium 4 820 D on Intel 955X chipset with CL5 2x1GB PC2-5300 RAM.
AND your cache/memory speed was the same as a P4 3.4GHz while your bandwidth was less than a 2.4GHz Q6600. For reference, the Q6600 2.4GHz on Intel BadAxe2 2x1GB PC2-5300 gets 41502MB/s.

And Dave, that wPrime....
8 total threads: 32m: 11.406 seconds - 1024m: 364.062

4 total threads: 32m: 23.015 seconds - 1024m: 742.875

1 total thread: 32m: 84.578 seconds
Coolaler forums and previous told scores (IIRC it was Moviemans Xeons):

2GHz Opteron 2332: 32M Test 10.641s (8 cores)
2GHz Opteron 2332: 1024M Test 327.437s (8 cores)
2.66GHz Xeon X5355: 32M Test 8.203s (8 cores)
2.66GHz Xeon X5355: 1024M Test 243.812s (8 cores)

WOW this is all over the shore .... What Gary of AT said 30-08 comes to mind:
"The latest Barcelona chips are B02 steppings with one more to go. Believe me, the reason we did not post any numbers at Computex or since then is the simple fact that the CPU/boards/BIOS have undergone dramatic changes over the course of the summer. If you have an earlier stepping there is a very good chance that HT and the secondary cache is disabled, this will affect the benchmarks dramatically. We expect to see final stepping chips and board revisions early next week, until then, it is all speculation for the most part.

The one caveat that I will add, this chip really does not get into a groove until you get over 2.4GHz and then it scales incredibly well. Also, the first RD790 boards we have will undergo another spin so any Phenom results with those boards are subject to interpretation depending on whether you like AMD or not."
Keep it up! Lets hope some decent BIOS and fixes are made fast.