Nehalem-EP......BLOOMFIELD

[Movieman]

To all here;
Lets try to keep this friendly ok.
Some people like AMD, some Intel.
Hell I have an old AMD FX51 in the other room that I think is one hell of a machine for a single core but it's time has come and gone...BUT I still keep it because for what it is, it demands respect.
An interesting point for the AMD lovers:
That little single core FX51@2423mhz would outdo my old dual cpu Intel 2400/512/533 machine in DC work... Yes, great respect for that little beast!

BUT today that isn't the case and why I offered LIKMARK to compare his AMD to my Harpertown which I KNOW, not think, is substantially slower clock for clock than the coming Nehalem 8 core Gainstown system.
I generally use Cinebench 10 to show pure cpu power.
A Gainstown at 3000 will out perform my Harpertown at 3574mhz, the max I was able to push the X5482's I had borrowed for 2 weeks on stock volts.
With those X5482's I was able to pull a SP1m time of 13.297s at 3603/12mb/1800( Yes, 450 on FBDimms! ) and thats on a workstation board with FBDimms and you know how badly WS boards do on SuperPi. For comparison the best I was able to get from the Clovers was 15.5s
Now I can tell you that the Harpertown is pretty damn impressive in it's own right. On a daily basis it produces app 40% more than my 8 core clovertown machines and they aren't that bad.
Now taking all this into consideration can anyone wonder why there is so much excitement over the coming Nehalems?
Lets not get lost in another AMD vs Intel battle.
Someone wants AMD, fine by me, buy it. They can use the money coming in but don't tell me they will benchmark with the current Intels let alone what is coming because they just plain won't do it.
That isn't me being a fanboy, thats just plain fact.