Why does phenom perform better than an intel quad at high resolution in Lost Planet?

[JumpingJack]

i have noticed that low ht and low nb doesnt make much difefrence either.
is it that the ondie ht,nb is such low latency that it is still just as fast as the memory and still has a gerater or equal bandwidth. not sure. but i did find it interesting.

in Tonys 1000mhz thread he mentioned this once. that he noticed the cpu take off and get better clocks with lower ht and nb. less heat probly in tony's case. but i dont know im just a dumb newb

Yeah, in terms of an OC I can understand this... but from a pure computational flow of 1' and 0', it is hard to figure out why Phenom supports higher FPS in a GPU bound mode... it is interesting nonetheless.

Of all the contemporary games out there Lost Planet is one of the 'neater' ones to fool around with from a bench perspective. Between LP and UT3, they do the best job of utilizing quads.

EDIT: PS -- I have only ever met one person in the enthusiast forums I would catagorize as 'dumb', you are not that person
Jack