@gosh

The Phenom used for the grid scores dont represents a standard Phenom. I remember it was clocked with 3.2 GHz and a insane (at least at this time) NB frequency of 2.7 GHz, DDR2 1100 4-4-4-5.

If you raise NB frequency you lower latencies, maybe thats why Phenom is ahead there.

@Jack

Can you run some test to confirm or disprove the numbers given for WiC, Crysis and Company of Heroes in http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/intel_q9300/

Same settings would bei nice