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[Opteron146]

Some new info from OBR. This is something interesting to talk about, IMHO:

"Little secret: In Windows 8 (Development Release) is not Bulldozer chip as "8 Core - 8 Threads" but 4 Core - 8 Threads! AMD went out with the truth ! ! !"

IF Windows scheduler thinks this is an octo-core, and the threads go to whatever core is free, then you could have 4 threads running on 2 modules, which is far from optimal performance. Don't you think? It would be better to treat the CPU as a 4c/8t, the same way Intel HTT works.

Depends if you want to use Turbo mode or not. I.e. that feature might be interesting for OC, but not for the typical Joe Sixpack enduser.

@JF-AMD:
Just found that comment from the x264 lead developer, they are interested in hand-coding for XOP:

XOP: possibly, but I need SSH access to a Bulldozer to do such optimizations.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...43#post1507243
Contacts: http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/about

It is an old message from June, but just in case if nobody @AMD knows him, still: Please help that guy.
I guess I do not need to tell you something about x264 and its importance ^^

Thanks

Opteron146