Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
correct me if im wrong, but wasnt this done on an intel ref platform? so the bios is coded and tweaked by intel themselves... if what you say is true, well... then why do you post this here? you should start an internal email thread at intel and ask why their current SB bioses are "total garbage"

so to sum it all up... from these early numbers SB seems to have a minimal performance gain per clock compared to current chips... gee wizz, who would have thought

im looking forward to reopening the threads where a couple of guys claimed SB would have "NOTABLE IPC IMPROVEMENTS" and dreamt of 20% ipc gains, bashing me for claiming there wouldnt be a major ipc boost

and even IF theres a massive ipc boost, intel still hasnt been able to enable any real overclocking on SB, and its supposed to launch in a couple of months... if bulldozer performs and overclocks well, then intel will be in trouble...
theres a tweaked version of sandy bridge with 6/8 cores coming a few months later, you should know that