Wow, people must really need AMD to fail to see that from this insignificant little test. Even if it stays the same with other benchmarks, AMD will still sell these chips and provided the ATI sector sells their Graphic cards AMD will start making a profit. They don't have to regain the performance crown to stay in business and thank god for all of us that, if this test is an indication, they will.

Does it matter that it took over 1.5V to reach 3G what is probably a 2.6G sample. To us it seems to, but its probably more significant that they hit 3G in the first place. They start out with 2.4 and 2.6G Phenoms. If this test is an indication, it looks like a 2.6G Phenom will outperform a 2.4G Yorkie and if they sell it lower, they'll sell a bunch of them. Sure, the Yorkie can be overclocked to probably over 4G with air, but beyond sites like these, no one cares.

If this trend continues, will I build my next computer around a Yorkie, certainly. But, I represent less then 1% of people who buy computers. Honesly, I'm encouraged by the results. It looks like AMD will stay in business and I'll get to buy cpus at a reasonable cost. Let hope they don't lose more important benchmarks by 20%. Then, they'd be in trouble and so would the rest of us. Unless of course you have lots of money or you get free cpus.