Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
That score of 13.88 in C11.5 is 25% higher than the one posted on Donanimhaber. So either the sample for the DH slide had 25% lower clock(not likely) or the score is not real. DH slide suggests that X8 at xxMhz has ~1.9x perf. of 1100T in C11.5,which is around 10.9-11pts. Still a massive leap in performance. 13.89 is therefore hard to swallow(heck even DH slide is very fishy in many regards).
Hmm, im starting to get a bit annoyed about those damn made up scores without proper background... Of course my post is not aimed at you informal.

Expectations grow and grow, by that I mean +20%, 35%, + 50% where will it stop? Even if Zambezi is competitive with high end core i7 disillusional people will be still expecting a beast with a lower price tag.

Let me tell you now - Not going to happen!
Either AMD has a competitive product that will be priced on par with Intel, which will lead to a potential price war (good for us) or again we will be waiting for a new architecture for them to compete (not good at all).

Athlon vs PIV is very unlikely to happen again looking at the state of both companies R&D resources, that way some people need to wake up and smell the coffee. Overhyping a product never helped anyone...