Quote Originally Posted by Shintai View Post
Friendly advice. Dont expect too much until its really there. Also since the core aint radically changed, its still inferiour to a Core 2 core.

DDR3 wont do anything, cept synthetics and rates benches. We aint bandwidth limited today. So unless the Phenom gonna clock higher than Lynnsfield. It wont touch it. Specially not with SMT enabled either. Yorkfield it can if its something where the FSB strangles it. But again, that sure aint games....

In short, think abit conservative. Else it quickly ends like last time and Barcelona being 50% faster...

If 1 bench, then Yorkfield is also 100% faster than Kentsfield
No, Im not expecting it actually 'will' 100% be competitive with Lynnfield. I just dont think it's going to be impossible however it all depends mainly on Deneb's clock yields and eventual further IPC improvements.

As for DDR3, dont know really. Upcoming GPU's do require quite a bit of bandwith though, but if it would bottleneck DDR2 bandwith to justify DDR3, not sure.

But as you said, Im not setting up my mind like Deneb would become the new C2Q to say it like that. Ill wait for the release for sure.

To make my point a bit more clear thus far, I think the delta between Yorkfield and Agena will be significantly reduced compared with Lynnfield and Deneb. But still, only thoughts, no hard proof and not expecting too much