Quote Originally Posted by MR_SmartAss View Post
Even if K10's pipeline length and configuration is same as K8's, the K10 stages are more complex. That means more cumulative latency in some of the stages, which causes the CPU to clock lower. K10 also has a much more complex northbridge, new level of cache, two more complex memory controllers. All this might be preventing K10 to clock higher. If this is the case AMD will need to redesign some of these things in order to boost the CPU frequency. Also, the redesigning of such parts may reduce latencies and improve frequencies of the L3 and the northbridge, which will result in better per clock performance.
Perhaps, but I said it before, I'll say it again, the B2 Stepping K10s will clock similarly to K8s

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