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Sorry nothing to add but amazing frequencies and good to see an AMD chip priced at £179 CPU giving the 3570k a run for it's money. I'm still not convinced by the extra four cores though..but simularly price it wouldn't appear to be an issue.
I do recal that just like Bulldozer, these chips still use 4 modules each with 2 int cores sharing the same resources. I also recall reading this impacts performance for single threaded apps .. Isn't Super-Pi a single threaded ap?
That said, given the choice now, I'd most likely go the AMD route if anything for their superb socket upgrade paths.
edit - interesting so see CPC only rating this 67%
I do recal that just like Bulldozer, these chips still use 4 modules each with 2 int cores sharing the same resources. I also recall reading this impacts performance for single threaded apps .. Isn't Super-Pi a single threaded ap?
That said, given the choice now, I'd most likely go the AMD route if anything for their superb socket upgrade paths.
edit - interesting so see CPC only rating this 67%