Quote Originally Posted by Jimmer411 View Post
As much as I wanna say that this is pointless and almost immature of Intel (They have nothing to prove), I am greatly lookin forward to another GHZ war After all in the end WE win.

For a long time this community has been split and the animosity shown reminds me of elementary school. Having both sides competitive like the AXP and P4 days will be a great thing for the community as a whole.

From what I read, AMD sensors were tweaked, not disabled. So maybe the cold bug is something that the manufactures put in rather than a by product of the manufacture process?
My conclusion from reading some articles on the new PII manufacturing process is that improved design has resulted in a consistently better thermal envelope for the operating range of the chip. Hence, in keeping with AMD's new OC philosophy, the company has expanded the op temp envelop to 300C.

I think this is confirmed by the unbelievable 33C at 3.9Ghz (1.55 voltage) while running crysis on AIR. These chips promise to be OC mofos. Whether they best Intel chips is beside the point - they are going to be a blast to tweak with ACC and a billion different iterations of AOD settings - voltages and clocks.