Quote Originally Posted by cdawall View Post
That was dismissed forever ago and was FUD to begin with.
With max clocks, nehalem still takes it more often than not. In a review like anandtech's for example of Vishera vs a 2.66ghz bloomfield is surprising competitive with fx 8350. However, considering the overclocking room, 75% increase for Nehalem(2.66ghz to 4.66ghz) vs 25% increase for Vishera(4ghz to 5ghz), on average the Nehalem with come out on top.

With Vishera having few huge advantages over Nehalem for example it is 5 years newer, has 60 percent more transistors going for it and is built on a much smaller process, has way more built in instructions added, of course its going to get some victories.

Vishera should be really smoking Nehalem after 5 years. A max clocked sandy bridge vs a max clocked Vishera is nearly a blowout.