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23-11-2008, 11:40 PM
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Originally Posted by T_M
Yeah, more important is whether its performance is worth the effort
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Agreed.
Although I didn't get to see any high frequency benchmark runs (they demo'ed stability with Crysis time-demo loops), from the quick runs I got off on air, if the chips can keep scaling further then they have the potential to do some damage to the charts. Also with the increase to 8MB total cache (6MB L3) we could see them on par in terms of 3D performance but this is purely speculation as it was difficult to get any kind of numbers off to even get some sort of performance gradient comparison - really am going to have to wait for the NDA.
Originally Posted by dinos22
josh
did you actually see -196C on the thermometer
you know that is physically impossible right unless they mean phenom2 no cold bug when system shut off 
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Hahahaha, yeah mate, I know it's impossible to get -196'C on the probe. The probe read -188'C at it's coldest and it was taped to the base of a Dragon Evo 2.2 pot. The fact I know it was as close as it could physically be to -196'C is because the pot was constantly full of LN2 hahaha
Oh, and it cold booted and rebooted with no problems at these temps
Originally Posted by eva2000
Wow didn't realise there would still be much of a following on AMD side - but based on traffic numbers to these forums and site, it seems everyone is keeping their eyes and ears wide open 
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I think for many, AMD is still the little company that could compared to the blue giant that is Intel. Compare this with everyone's urge to have a competitive alternative within the market and you start to see why people keep an eye out - even just for the hell of it
Originally Posted by eva2000
Still, AMD has a few more months to improve things even more 
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Let's hope so because I want to see some tighter efficiency so they can really go head to head with Intel.
Originally Posted by dinos22
that's true george
francois is also going to do some serious changes i reckon at Intel camp
i reckon they will introduce high leakage chips now to reach better frequencies
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Wouldn't mind seeing that but I wouldn't want to see it if it leads to some woeful TDPs on air/water setups.
I'm still waiting for Francois/Intel to get back to me on a certain question about cold bug that I had asked in an online press-chat on Tuesday but was never answered and instead taken offline - still waiting to hear from Intel
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