Re: No. He suggests using decent memory will give "a few percent" increase. I think he's low.
Based on what?
Re: without any *further* revisions of this Rev F part
LOL. How many "further" revisions of rev F is AMD planning to release this year? Maybe if they put 8 design teams on every CPU they do, they can iteratively improve performance to the point where they can compete with Intel on their current micro-architecture. ;-)