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Do you guys even read what I wrote? In floating point heavy code that employes all 8 threads Turbo will almost never engage. Turbo will engage accross all 8 integer cores though,but cinebench will use flexfp coprocessors most of the time where tdp will be maxed out. You can read all about bd exec. units power draw and clock characteristics at amd blogs past isscc event.

I red but do you have a BD? So why should I believe you?
Cinebench11.5 scores are rather bad even CB10 is doing better. Hence I do not believe that the FPU is maxed out at all, especially as there is neither FMAC nor XOP/"MMX" code (the other 2 pipes in the FPU) used. Thus I think there is enough headroom for the 3,9Ghz Turbo stage. Anyways, we'll know in less than 1 week ;-)

If that does end up being the case, I will certainly get the 8100 instead!

Then you have to wait a few weeks longer, because there is only a 8120 and 8150 model at launch ;-)
However, there are 2 versions of the 8120, 125W and 95W, but from experience with the Phenom2s, I would assume that the 95W part will go directly into the OEM market to Dell, hp, etc.