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					Originally Posted by BenchZowner  There's no way to make a module ( the term is compute unit, there's no module in any microprocessor engineering book ) appear/act as a single core. 
Also expecting to see an eight-core FX working operate fully stable for 24/7 usage over 5GHz on air cooling is more than a daydream, and even if they ( let me enhance the dream ) could make BD like 10% faster with a revision [ simply impossible, just saying    ] and even make them have a decent average air cooled overclock at approx 5.5GHz, it'd still not be enough to match the 2600K. | 
	
 10% is not that much. The last x86 (phenom II) architecture gained 10%. Why not this one?? C2 and C3. Big difference. Night and day actually.
__Cpu__Stp___stock___MaxTurbo
FX-8150	B2	3.6 GHz	4.2 GHz
FX-8170	C0	3.9 GHz	4.5 GHz
The above is only 60mhz shy of 10%. 
I don't do the Intel vs AMD fyi. Already know i7 is faster.