Quote Originally Posted by Opteron146 View Post
Yes its 45nm, but as stated above with ultra low k. Think about 45nm v2.0 ;-)
Less power is leaked, thus less heat is produced, thus people could use higher vcore, because the heat/power limit is not reached as early as with the old 45nm process.

Very good indeed ... I wonder how the 1090Ts will perform. 4.5 GHz ?
It's actually the other way around.

Some impressive numbers indeed. I still think low end bloomfield aka i7 930 would edge it out though. I'm on the fence about building a dedicated media encoding rig and it's between the x6 or the i7 930. It'll all boil down to whichever of these is $200 or lower and how well it competes against the bloomfield. I have a Microcenter near me so I'll be factoring in the fact that I could pick up a i7 930 for $199.99.