Quote Originally Posted by Shintai View Post
Moving things around dont change power consumption.
It does.

A typical Intel NB has 3 things : PCI-E controller , MC and DMI.
Nehalem gets all on die.The difference?

Until Nehalem NBs were typically 1 or 2 process generations behind. ( CPUs on 90nm NB were 130/180nm , CPUs 65nm NBs were 90nm/130nm ).

A NB typically burns 8-25w.Moving it inside the CPU and using the latest process tech will probably cut the power by 2-4x.