OK.

BTW, +2GHz is the kind of magic number in terms of NB perf/latency IME. I managed above 2GHz NB/HT on an EVEREST run lately and the EVEREST latency was 49.7s: http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/6357/asaui7.png

And my old NB/cache latency tests:

240HT x 11 = 4 cores 2640MHz, NB=3120MHz, HT=2160MHz, RAM=480 5-5-5-5 2T:


220HT x 11 = 4 cores 2420MHz, NB=1980MHz, HT=1100MHz, RAM=440 4-4-4-4 2T:


All L1/L2/L3 cache latencies fall nicely. Pity that was before, not doable anymore.