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[-Boris-]

Having something like prefetching disabled can lower performance by about half; microcode in the BIOS can do this, for example.

If leaked performance really is final performance, then I would say the entire management at AMD would need a visit by the nice men in white coats for actually releasing something worse than K10.5
Because if it is actually worse, then it makes no sense at all to release it.

Now I won't claim to know if it will beat SB. For all I know SB could be faster. But to be slower than K10.5 would be utterly retarded.

And that's what the fuzz is all about. If the reviewers should be able to post reviews this Wednesday then they must have the final chip with final bios and final configuration already. So if reviewers says it sucks, when it probably will suck at this point. We aren't talking about leaks of engineering samples with features disabled and beta bioses. This is the real deal.