Hey Chew*, since you were there and saw. How much better is a core i7 for Xfire/SLI? A well known Dr. without a Ph.D is telling us here that i7 is obviously best. And he's been to promise land and he's seen everything.

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There is only 2 logical explantions for this and the latter being more feasible. Either there is more than just a 10% ipc performance increasement or.......AMD is really pushing the "dragon platform" so when you pair all the required equipment for a platform to meet dragon platform requirements it gets a boost in performance possibly due to optimizations of this specific platform maybe through drivers, bios etc etc.

As far as the am2+ compatibility of phenom 2 in am3 like i said don't shoot the messenger, I had mentioned to a certain someone at the event that it kind of seemed pointless to even make an am2+ variant in the form of an end of life product that would not be compatible with am3 and why not just release am3 chips only if backward compatible, his comment was who said that, i mentioned reading it all over the net, he said it was a rumour and that am2+ phenomII would work fine in am3 however am3 was even more of an improvement over am2+ phenom II.

Me personally I am waiting for am3 and I said as much, we shall see how my choice pays off.

For those interested this is the board that they were using for the intel comparison. All 3 blue banks were populated and bios confirmed triple channel configuration was enabled as well as turbo, hypertreading and oll that other stuff....etc it wasn't handicapped other than being in a board without alot of bling.......
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813121361
It used this cpu.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115200

I also noticed another rumour going around that they were only overclocking one core......its a rumour.