Quote Originally Posted by gOJDO View Post
I am talking about stable operation. As the op said on that thread, with the NB&L3 set to 2.5GHz the CPU wasn't stable.

IMO Phenom @3GHz and NB/L3 @2.4GHz in average is going to be as fast as Kentsfield @3GHz and FSB @1333MHz for multithreaded software, but for singlethreaded i think it'll still be a little slower. The NB & L3 speed can improve multithreading performance, where Phenom is more competitive to Kentsfield, but for singlethreaded I think that the NB&L3 speed won't do much.
People are forgetting that majority of benchmarks presetnted here were ran with C'n'Q ENABLED.
This is lowering S.T. performance compared to C'n'Q DISABLED. I know AMD is advasing on using C'n'Q, but when benched properly diference between Phenom and Kentsfild isn't that big in 1-2 threaded software.
Pick a bench and I can prove it.
To be clear Kentsfild on average will have better IPC by 1%-10% but nowhere near 15%-25% as claimed by some.