Barcelona Opteron 2350(B1) arrived

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Well......I asked a friend (user) to our forums who owns a Q6600 and a 8800GT to bench 2k6 at 2400MHz and VGA 600/900......

There you go.....

He used "bios defaults"....Ram "by default" , etc.....As a "regular user" is going to buy a system like this and bench 2k6 without overclocking, playing with the rams, etc.....

Barchie 2400MHz (with higher fsb than default - edit: OK HT lower ) : 10926 marks...

Core 2 Duo QUAD Q6600 ALL DEFAULT : 12073 marks...

SO:

Barchie
SM2 = 4439
SM3 = 4672
CPU = 3553

Q6600
SM2 = 5052
SM3 = 5056
CPU = 3857

Now what?....

George,
I know your not an AMD guy () but please note that the HT Multiplier in this benchmark is at X4 mode. So the "FSB" is actually underclocked (960MHz vs 1000MHz which is default for that CPU).
The HT ref. clock (240MHz vs 200MHz) makes absolutely no difference in terms of performance.
HT Link (1GHz by default on this example) is the "FSB" of AMD world and it depends on HT Link multiplier and HT ref. clock. so 240x4 (960MHz) is slower than 200x5 (1GHz) (assuming that the Memory bus and CPU core clock would be at the same frequency).

I know........BUT I see "FSBs" all over the place.......