Quote Originally Posted by Extelleron View Post
I don't have two systems to compare with side by side, I have only owned AMD systems for the last few years. A theoretical advantage for AMD makes some sense (because of IMC and lower latency) but I can't see this making enough of a deal in real world usage that it would be noticeable. With the newer, faster FSB's plus Phenoms having high latency relative to the A64's (because of slow L3/NB) AMD doesn't actually have much of an advantage in memory latency anyway.

If you look under memory access latency, E8500 is equal to Phenoms: http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/14424/3
it isn't quantifiable. just an experience thing.