Quote Originally Posted by triple_A View Post
Yes this is a bad comparison.
They shoulld have used equally high clocked cpu's and ram.
The highest clocked RAM that Barcelona will support is DDR2-667.
At lower frequency the CPU has more bandwidth per clock, so it is an advantage for K10 in this case.
Anyway, we still can compare it to 1.6GHz C2Q. We just need someone with Kentsfield to run it underclocked to 1.6GHz(with a little disadvantage of the underclocked FSB to 800Mhz), using DDR2-667.