Quote Originally Posted by Blauhung View Post
also remember that after tweaking with the Turbo mode settings you can pretty much add on a constant extra 2 points to the multi. So that 150 would end up pushing the CPU to 3.3GHz
so are you conceding that the reference clock is limited? If the 2.6 nehalem can't hit 3.6 or better I don't see a point in getting it over a current quad unless one can use all 8 threads effectively.