Quote Originally Posted by Newblar View Post
how about a 3gig nehalem compared to a 4.2penryn in games supporting only two cores?
seems like phenom vs x2 to me, and this is intels first shot at integrated memory controllers... shouldnt that mean more heat, more die size, and less ocing headroom?
I realize this is outside your 3GHz to 4.2GHz example but, I hear they've demoed nehalem running air cooled @ ~4GHz which theoretically would make it slightly faster then a 4.2GHz penryn running even a two core game (and defiantly faster with software that can use more cores).

Now, if you bring price into the picture the penryn may equate to cheaper performance