Right, i didnt mean northbridge literally. I was asking if we might have to overclock with socket 1366 to avoid a possible bottleneck from the pci-e controller.
Donnie27, yes its nice that Nehalem will be faster clock for clock and that we probably won't have to oc as much to get similar performance, but thats not the issue. Say a 3.5ghz Penryn = 3.0ghz Nehalem for the sake of argument. To get a 3.5ghz Penryn you can buy one thats 2.4ghz stock for under $300 (probably alot cheaper by Q4) but if Nehalem can't OC then you will have to buy the full bone fide version for close to $1000. Big problem.
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