Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
If a Nehalem-> SB cross brought you 5% IPC gain in non AVX aware applications ,how much do you think will "a tweak" bring? I expect a tweaked version to be more OC friendly ,to bring more cores(on different socket though) and to be without GPU .And maybe unlocked.
tks, but Im really not interested in what you expect
the IPC gain from gulftown -> tweaked hexa-core SB (15mb l3) shall be higher than lynnfield -> non-tweaked SB quad-core+IGP (6mb l3), thats for sure

how much? probably enough to counter the competition