Quote Originally Posted by stealth17 View Post
Things get more interesting by the day. I think it is safe to say that the bios is so buggy and the boards suck so much still that it too early to make any concrete conclusions about Barcelona.

As for the Core 0 issue, this might be pretty cool actually because if that is true, perhaps it is possible to clock each core independently? That would be pretty fricken sweet for when you are pushing balls to the wall and one core is holding you back. Though I'm not sure how that would effect stability or anything....

Thanks for all your hard work and thanks for sharing your results so far.
Barcelona allows for each core to clock independent of each other. this was present in early design docs and is still true to this day. to take advantage of this, however, you definitely need the BIOS to support it and the processor driver within windows. Again, this is much more interesting test metric that, should S7 and I be able to figure out a good benchmark for it, would definitely provide how well the Barc. is able to do in power savings over Clovertown.

this has been confirmed by AMD.

DDR3 is not present on the cpu and will require a repackage of the core if/when it arrives (Dozer).

hope that clarifies a few things.

dave