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Exactly what I was thinking...Hahahaha nice but a little late for April Fools.
It's just marketing for the brand (FX). With this being limited series it won't generate much income if at all.Even if true, I'm not sure what this really signifies. Companies have binned products this way for years and hyped the heck out of them, but selling a few chips like this isn't going to really turn AMD's fortunes around.
Well to be honest at 5Ghz FX8350 would be in the 3930/3960 territory performance wise. Out of the box that is.I have to say this thread was a major letdown...
I was hoping it was their new processor and it was so good they actually could get into a price war with 2011...
I have found this post by Stilt at XS.
He says it's most likely hoax as numbers don't jive. This guy knows what he is talking about.
Even if it's not a hoax, I'm not sure what the big deal is. Intel had a special-run 4.4 GHz Westmere Xeon over two years ago. I'm sure they could easily make a shipping product over 5 GHz now, if they felt there was any point. In fact, given Intel's thermal headroom compared to AMD, I'd guess it would be a lot easier for them than for AMD.
If it's real then it's 5GHz on all modules. But I trust Stilt so I too now think this might be a hoax or misinformation.This is all based around power consumption of all modules at 5GHz, right? This could really just be turbo up to 5GHz, only attainable with one module active.
The thing that baffles me is that there could be 800MHz of margin over current processors that could be eaten up even with very aggressive binning. Or was the process that much worse than it is now?