villa1n and Epsilon84,both of you have good points.From the known results,with a larger-per-core L3 pool,K10 seems like a very good Dual Core option/alternative to Merom.But,since merom is EOL,Penryn will be its competitor.We must keep in mind that with HTT clocking and NB clock going up(can yield from 5 to 10% improvement,results do vary),paired with 1066 DDR2,this Kuma variant may very well be a good dual core option,especially for a low cost 790GX based system,provided it clocks to at least 3-3.2Ghz.
Also,Kuma shows us that L3 do matter a lot and that per-core L3 pool which will be increased greatly with Deneb,coupled with raise in sheer NB clock and IPC increase ,could bring Deneb a lot closer to Yorkfield if not surpass it in some instances(although this do happen with K10 in some cases too).
You are wrong.Originally Posted by GAR
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