Did they mention that they got the BUlldozer to about 8.2 Ghz on liquid helium setting an official PC record for highest frequency.

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Using AMD 1090T Black Edition now and very happy with it. Very nice performance for the price. So I will for sure get the Bulldozer along with the new 990FX chipset and forthcoming new Radeons :)

I’m half-way there with my new mainboard, but probably won’t get Zambesi when it’s released – rather wait for the next stepping which will be further optimised. In the meantime, I’m quite happy running my C3 Deneb at 3.8GHz and cheap-ass DDR-III 1333 memory at 1500MHz using 225MHz bclk with no voltage mods and air cooling (although a CoolerMaster Hyper 212 rather than the stock unit) :)

I'm pretty sure performance is based off how well the program is written for multi-core use. I know Intel has released a library just for this, http://threadingbuildingblocks.org/ (works on AMD aswell)

They where running that on 1 BD module (2 cores, kind of) and the rest shut down, witch imo means nothing in terms of actual stock performance.

As far as the prize goes the top BD will be about 50 euros more expensive than the i2500K, at least where i live.

I think AMD is in for a very tough time.


P.S. Have my i2500K running at 4.1 GHz on air. Oc`d it to that without even trying really.

i7 2600k here.
I'm doing 4.4 on air, and its a very mild OC done with ASUS's auto OC program.
Runs fairly cool too as far as I know, but my knowledge of such things is rather limited.