Wow a lot of writing here. I've been saying it to my freinds for a while now that my AMD opteron 939 @ 2.9 felt smoother than my q6600 at 465x7. It has to be the memory controller because with AMD I can get better memory performance. I believe its as simple as we don't have a bottleneck at the CPU so why does it matter if the Intel CPU is faster. I'm looking at AMD systems now because I'm just not happy with the Intel system. Its lame in my opinion and I'm sick of riding this Intel bandwagon because it seems like everybody is on it. I want to join the rebel side and say F them benchmarks cuz my everyday computer use does not include benchmarking my CPU. lol.
I just found this
* QX9775 - 800MHz @ 5-5-5-15 (FB-DIMM)
* QX9770 - 1600MHz @ 7-7-7-20 (DDR3)
* QX6850 - 1333MHz @ 7-7-7-20 (DDR3)
* Q6600 - 1066MHz @ 7-7-7-20 (DDR3)
* E8500 - 1333MHz @ 7-7-7-20 (DDR3)
* E6750 - 1333MHz @ 7-7-7-20 (DDR3)
* Phenom 9850 - 800MHz @ 5-5-5-15 (DDR2)
* Phenom 9600 - 800MHz @ 5-5-5-15 (DDR2)
With my q6600 the 9850 owns my bandwidth when I'm at around 1165Mhz 5-5-5-15
I know for sure that I'm not utilizing my CPU to its fullest. For example I'm running my q6600 @ 2.4 and hardly realize a difference in gaming compared to running it at 3.3. I'm pretty confident though that a boost in memory bandwidth would be felt in gaming. So I would stand to benefit if I had a 9850 right now. Please correct me if I'm wrong because I'm seriously thinking of ditching this Intel chip.
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