Quote Originally Posted by Shadowmage View Post
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).
Is HT link speed=NB speed ?

AFAIK all K10 on Ht 2.0 will run their NB at 1.6GHz.