Quote Originally Posted by roofsniper View Post
i am most likely the biggest amd fanboy you will ever see. i have never ran an intel rig before and i never will. but i am not biased towards amd.
I ran intel back in the 386 days, but that doesnt count - I think it was second hand
but still after the barcelona fiasco I started noticing that power draw was starting to affect my choice.. I didnt want to touch a P1. For me the fact that the i7 uses the L3 and QPI confirms what I thought early on - look at what a company like AMD a fraction of the size of intel can accomplish. Forward looking design that has some downfalls in comparison to intel that can throw quite a few more dollars into development - HT on i7 rocks.

Did AMD manage to reduce the latency in the cache much as a result of immersion lithography, or are the two not connected - and does the lack of highK mean this cache will continue to be the hold up of IPC?