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Takes BD 8Ghz to match IB at 6Ghz anyway

Kindly restrict your trolling to Intel section... We're here in "AMD" section to read some bits and bytes about the new processors which are to come out sometime soon... If you've nothing worthwhile to add, please do not be a nuisance.

To admin and other staff: Sincerest apologies... but i guess someone had to herd the trolls to the barn...

On topic. Bring out the news already... why would you deprive us of our sleep... 8+ ghz is good, and i'll conclude on LN2. However, if it manages even close to 6 on air/ water, it would be quite something alright. Personally i don't overclock much. I do love how AMD platforms are better specced for the same money, and by a mile, and if you're on a budget... unless you have some specific use in mind, AMD is the obvious choice, which i recommend to people who ask advice on such matters. However, if anyone from AMD is paying attention, in India, your dealers resort to price gouging (on purpose... hint, hint!), thereby positioning Intel's processors are better value. Sometimes, AMD is plain screwing up... which can't help you gaining market-share in any manner. When i bought my old system, C2D e6600 & e6750 were priced cheaper/ same than a X2 6000. Just saying...

On the architecture... there seemingly are bottlenecks that people are pointing to, but i guess, programming has not even started to use all the cores on a processor much, leave alone hitting a bottleneck (excluding specific server usage). All in all, i expect nothing less than 10-20% due to improvements in the prefetch, and some other improvements, at the same clock. If there's anything less... i'll guess that will have to be explained as some snag (aka TLB of Phenom), which will explain Charlie's statement WRT improvements in Q1 2012, with a new revision. I also think that it may have something to do with specific patches to be written for the OS to enable usage of all the improvements brought in by the new instruction set(s). AMD did write one such for Linux in the July this year. Next year, Win 8 is to be hitting shelves, which may bring a new SP for Win 7 & Vista (may be). Too many questions...