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Hmm, 186w TDP? Doesn't that seem strangely... high?
Interesting to see it can be overclocked pretty high, but now I'm curious to what cooling it needs.
Why do people continually read the **** speculation or just sheer nonsensical stories that are on the internet.
It doesn't matter if it's a positive or negative story, you can pretty much guarantee it's just worthless.
In other news, I was speaking to one of my sources at AMD tonight. He was saying that Bulldozer will hit 5ghz on air with ease, it can also turbo to 10ghz.
Offers more than three times the performance of the top end Sandybridge.
*insert crudely drawn picture of AMD chip with crayon shaded CPU-Z picture*
very true,
and the mad thing is people will get excited over any positive amd news false or true will not matter as long as its POSITIVE,negative news is automatically false/rejected.![]()
Turban? Sandi?
You mean Thuban and Sandy right?
The reason SuperPi is important is not due to it's massive load on a CPU, nor it's ability to show extensive processing using extended instruction sets. SuperPi is a great way to show that you are getting no data corruption or electron migration on a heavily overclocked CPU. The values are quickly checksummed and easily verified to be Pi. It's historically been put forward as the "challenge" for extreme overclocked CPUs to beat, and will most likely remain so for a long time yet.
But superPI is only Important in that regard & is not important for brand comparison so in that context its not important.
SuperPi is only important to the kind of guys that have never kissed a girl.
runs rather hot too despite being watercooled!
Sure, that's why I said it may not be applicable.
Still, 10+ second Super PI at 4.6 GHz is disappointing if this screenshot is accurate.
Either way, 1.5 V sounds high for 4.6 GHz, considering early Sandy Bridge overclocks showed 5-5.2 GHz at these kinds of voltages (that no sane person would use for a 24/7 overclock anyway). I suppose Intel's 32 nm voltages may not be applicable as a comparison though.