Quote Originally Posted by Apokalipse View Post
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.
Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
Ok 3 more days.
If you really think AMD is going to release a workaround at the launch then there will be many websites,including the biggest ones,which were scr*wed over by AMD since they tested the incomplete platform. This won't happen of course.

In order to get to level projected from Nov 2010 slide that was leaked,performance needs to jump up dramatically,think 40+% over this(yes this much). Not going to happen. There are only few things in a chip that can lower performance this much and still not be a bug (one of them are 2 new prefetch mechanisms AMD stated were used to offset the IPC impact of deeper pipeline;but I doubt anything is wrong or disabled,this is the final chip).
Quote Originally Posted by Oese View Post
i can believe the prefetch mechanism has flaws. That would account for a bad power consumption without actual performance.

not amused at all by what can be seen by now..
^ sandy bridge did that can someone find those results? i've been looking for them and got nothing.

Quote Originally Posted by Pt1t View Post
But it likes memory OC

first time i seen an NB actaully have a speed listed in it.