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[morrowinder]

DavidA2: Yep that pre-production unit appears to throttle...

But it also gets 28000 in 3DMark Ice storm which is well below the 45000 that Intel has posted so I doubt that this thing is a final revision or frankly operating as intended. I don't know why you instantly assume Intel fudges benchmarks but they have been pretty consistent over the years otherwise they would get sued. We will see when production units are reviewed but I expect that there were definite problems with that unit. The author himself speculated it was throttled to 3.5W which makes no sense if they included a fan in the bloody thing.