Quote Originally Posted by savantu View Post
I refuse to believe QC Nehalem runs in early steppings at 4.44GHz. I'd say that is an ES with unlocked multipliers.Probably , it had a 266MHz FSB clock and was OC to 444 , multiplier dropped accordingly to 6.

I mean wtf , 20% better than Core per clock and running 40% faster ?

That's 70% better performance than Core.




See above.I must say , I'm perfectly satisfied with only 20% per clock and 40% higher frequency from the start .I must admit such a scenario would be really bad news for the green team.
Remember the part where Intel said that Nehalem is the biggest change in CPUs since Pentium Pro?

And it is very possible that 4.4ghz could be achieved with early silicon. 45nm production was ironed out with Penryn, and remember when we first started seeing results for Conroe? 4ghz was achieved quite easily