Haswell is still hazy, but there's plenty of information out there. Intel has started talking in general terms about capabilities (see here and about the micro-architecture at Wikipedia). An older story at The Reg talks about a native octo-core design. (Sounds like Bulldozer, perhaps).
I was surprised to discover today that the HSM shipped with the retail Core i3-530 (73 watts) is identical to the cooler shipped with the Core i5-870 (95 watts). Probably saves Intel a couple of bucks not to have too many HSM variations in the warehouse.
While serious overclockers will...
Flogge, your code review found the bug. One instance/8 threads/2048 MB memory at 99% CPU utilization. Thanks. Intel supplied the box, so they get the points. Rough justice.
T4rd, nope, the OCing got pulled a while ago. FAH is tougher than even Prime95. I do not recommend OCing before...
NotFred console says "Out of memory: kill process 986 (mpiexec) score 24984 or a child. Killed process 987 (FahCore_a2.exe)." At this point, FAHspy loses connection (stops running) and NotFred Diskless Folder can no longer connect. VMware-vmx.exe process cpu time drops from 50% (of 8 cores) to...