Yeah he picked it up now and we have been discussing those since August.But he has been slow before,remember he just found out that there will be 2 versions of Deneb(even though it's know fact for a good while).
The tested chip is the very first 45nm part produced and was "healthy enough" to be sent for testing and validation.
And what's funny is that even with those high volts the first C0 step. chip is very cool.It halved the power draw practically while performing 8% better on average.The 2.3Ghz ES had a 1.8Ghz NB clock,lower than a 2.2GHz one the retail C2 Denebs will have.Not to mention AMD could improve the chip a bit since this one(C0) did perform oddly in number of tests under Vista SP1(very low multicore score under WInrar,around 550..The tester mentioned a "memory bug" a few times at itocp forum where the C0 was first tested).
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