Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
Ah lol,now even Anand is no good
First ,you should read up,the hardware prefetching is disabled since it is recommended by intel as it was found that it negatively affects the performance (hence they disabled it ,duh..)
Second,yeah,now disks are the problem.Right.It is logical that Intel must have provided Anandtech with the worst possible hard drive setup in their systems,since they knew they would only be compared to the latest AMD's quad core based server

As for scaling,they have numbers for 2Ghz AMD 2P system and 2.33Ghz 2P intel system.No brainer.It could only get worse for intel since Clowertowns doesn't scale linearly with freq.(fsb bottleneck).And the lowest number for K10 in the table is 1.8Ghz,so it was pretty much constant(they didn't have to presume scaling up for it since it was faster clock/clock in 2P most of the time).
Don't you mean Front Side Buses?