... so what??? I tweaked and tuned my Phenom 940, till in idle it runs 700mhz, but under load @ 3600... with traytool i underclocked HD4870 GPU 400; MEM 1600, but at load it runs GPU 800Mhz; MEM 4400Mhz... together with 4x2Gb Transdent 5-5-5-15 @ 1066; 3x80Gb Seagate in RAID0; WD7500AAKS; tvcard and X-FI XtreemGamer my system @ idle uses 155Watt with Windows7... at load its about 390Watt... according to my APC... yes... windows7 is a promising OS... and the power saving gains is because it... i can do all my stuff without any hiccups with a 8 month old rig... it is not like intel is doing it... that's because of collaboration with microsoft... and i think, AMD is doing that too... any hardware maker out there are doing it, because microsoft is having the biggest OS market share... but there is two things to consider... 1) is the CPU the 'biggest' part anyway... why? Most of physics and geometry is done by video cards now... YOU can do video with video cards too using nVidia CUDA or ATi Stream technology, OpenCL... so?! 2) if YOU use the new features provided with the new technology, there is pointless to have a expensive CPU just to post some silly comments, like mine... so my conclusion is... intel needs to sell the next generation of cpu's, but they know, that most of the time the cpu's do just simple stuff like mail, internet, media... so the mesage is... wee have most powerful CPU in the world, but it can run like a cheap power saver too... sins catalyst 8.12 i don't use the cpu, to compress video... i use GPU... much faster...
p.s. Where is the larrabee buz gone?