Quote Originally Posted by Donnie27 View Post
IMHO, it is not about a Fast Processor but a well balanced architecture that had been hobbled by safe but slower features. Hypertransport is born from Alpha EV6 and of all people, RAMBUS. Intel FAB-ed some of the Alpha's. Intel had L3 long before AMD even dreamed about it. Did we forget the P4 Extreme with L3? Give AMD credit for what the really did like X86-64 but please try to stop doing it for stuff they did come up with.

Again, put two Dothan PentiumMs on a QPI and they'd kick mucho-@$$ here. GamePC showed just how much they rocked with a crippled platform. I remember folks partial to the Green Team saying it was fake, just as they said when the first Conroe tests showed up. Many here on this forum Doubted the first i7 reviews when others thought they were s/low. This parallel monster gets meaner as its L3 grows, memory controller/s get larger/faster and yes, QPI speeds up. The biggest problem AMD has is that Intel
I have a dual socket system with essentially 2 yonah(dualcore Dothan) laptop chips in it.
4 cores total at 1995/2mb/667.
Computational power equal to a Q6600 at the same mhz and draws 117w at 100% load,85w at idle.
Actually using it to post now as my elec is out and on a generator and this is the lowest drawing system in the house!