Quote Originally Posted by Tony View Post
saaya

Who told you they were hand picked samples? i read they were random picked and this is an average of what you can expect.

AMD also said that these weren't totally cherry picked samples and that these results are about average from what they are seeing with early samples. If that proves true on retail samples it will make for an interesting part!
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IMO there is no such thing like Totally Handpicked and Partially Handpicked.
Either you choose to test 100 out of 1000, or test the whole batch you are selecting the best possible overclocking cpu from a certain ammount.