yah, but clock for clock performance/improvement is irrelevant. 4 1.9ghz quads is likely cooler than 2 3ghz k8 and at least in server, cheap. speccpu does not test for realistic desktop usage (or any specific one for that matter) so we need workstation apps to test SSE improvements (non broken runs of Cinebench, 3dsmax etc)

SPECint_rate_base2006 score of 72.8 beats 4 3.2ghz k8 by 30% http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/...723-01515.html and SPECfp_rate_base2006 of 68.5 beats 4 3ghz k8 by 38% http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/...703-01354.htmlExcept for rate, you must be using exorbitant amounts of bandwidth which is not likely.

And in single thread INT, http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/...604-01202.html k8 is 42% faster (3ghz k8 vs 1.9ghz k10, btw 3/1.9 does not mean 57% more performance, shown above similarly clocked k8s)