[ShrimpBrime]

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.