Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
why is everyone so obsessed with the fsb... if it brings more than 1-2% performance increase i would be surprised. (notice how much core2 gained from 266 to 333...)
It's not the FSB. The NB controls important factors like the L3 cache speed. In this case, the L3 cache is effectively running at ~50% speed (3GHz/1.6GHz).