Quote Originally Posted by Calmatory View Post
High memory bandwidth helps when the data can't be found from CPU caches. With high memory bandwidth and low latency the cost of cache miss reduces, depending on how much data has to be fetched and what kind of a miss it is. So, for smaller cached CPU's the mem bandwidth is more crucial than for high cached CPU's.
yes, thats the theory, but real desktop apps show otherwise, else there would be a noticeable differents on K8/K10 with faster mem.