Quote Originally Posted by -Boris- View Post
Did AMD ever say that Phenom would be able to beat C2Q? We have people today who thinks AMD said BD would beat i7 just because fake slides stated that AMD said so. I'm sure these people will call AMD liars if BD don't beat i7.
IIRC, there was a gentleman from AMD who cherry-picked a single test of Barcelona and noted a 40% gain ...

The internets morphed this into BARCELONA IS 40 PERCENT MO' BETTAH.

Then came the TLB, and then the nOverclocking that wasn't semi-corrected until sb 710-50, ACC and the 'magic pins'.

Shortly thereafter the AM2+ 940/920 PhIIs came out.