Quote Originally Posted by Movieman View Post
Yes it is but when a 3000mhz cpu is out of the box stronger than the harpertown at 3600 is it a moot point?
The things are huge pal..
Absolutely! Remeber that odl thread where I tried to say better performance will make some folks forget about extreme overclocking?

Quote Originally Posted by Newblar
is that 18x multi wrong?
i have a huge suspicion that these new 'i7' cores will not clock well... might end up to be something like a phenom
fsb is dead
Not being able to overclock like Phenom, I doubt and 2.66GHz is already as fast as a 3 to 3.2GHz Penryn in many cases (what I'm told) so even at stock and less than $300, who cares?