Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
Nope.
TLB erratum affected virtualization drastically and it was the main selling point of Barcelona(or one of the main selling points).The time they dedicated to fix the erratum was planned for speed path optimizations which happened late(B3 got "up to speed" only in Q2/Q3).

As for intel's TLB erratum,it's there alright but it is not a big deal if intel already patched it... I wonder if there is any perf. penalty like Barcelona had with the patch on.
1. They released the low frequency Phenoms, but not the high frequency ones. The official reason was the TLB eratta, but all frequencies were equally affected.
2. The probability of it appearing was insanely low. I haven't heard of anyone experiencing it, except for AMD engineers under controlled conditions.
Face it...it's just a normal errata. It can cause data corruption or crashes, but it will most likely not appear a single time in the whole lifetime of the CPU. Core 2 Duo, even after 2 year still has over 100 critical bugs.
If anyone is gonna contradict me, please focus on my first point. This is the most important one. If ALL CPUs had the TLB eratta, why did they release the low frequency ones