I worry that you're saying they have "this uncanny ability" on the basis of one instance where they've done it. The other possibility would be that they just go

I worry that you're saying they have "this uncanny ability" on the basis of one instance where they've done it. The other possibility would be that they just got lucky once (helped by Intel's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad P4 design) and haven't had similar luck success before or since.