Alien : I did see that pic this morning on l'inq, and well its very questionable since its a digital camera pic of an unkown amd cpu thats running at 3GHz, im pretty sure it would be quad core to get a score of 5.9+ (core 2 duo needs 3.6GHz+ to reach that) however we have no way of linking the machine in the pic to that score.
They could of used extreme cooling to get it to hit 3GHz, or they could of used a lower speed quad to get windows to record the score, and then put in a dual core chip to get that screen grab.
A crucial thing missing from that pic is the little bit saying "This system is : rated (or unrated) then giving the score.
If you change hardware it will change this to unrated, but will show the previous score until you rerun it.
I'd be very pleased if amd has got there quad core to 3GHz on air cooling as this would give intel the hurry up (they're currently backing off development) However there 'blizzard' of name drops suggested that they would launch at 2GHz for the bulk of machines (some 77%) with 6% being 2.3GHz and above, and 17% being 'energy efficent'
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=3050
I do wonder if amd have been building some barca's @90nm as they really seem to be having trouble with 65nm to the point of they are already talking about 45nm being next year and yet they have yet to ship mass volumes of 65nm chips, only really the energy efficent chips so far and some of the low- mid end desktop chips