Quote Originally Posted by Dagalidis View Post
I think you make a BIG mistake here my friend...
PII with IMC is Better from Q6600...... FAR FAR BETTER .... believe me.
IMC is a miracle when you see the response on Desktop apps.
I have my Q6600 at 3.6Ghz for 24/7 use but my old OPTERON 165 running on 2.6 GHz has SUPERIOR Response.

I believe AM3 & DDR3 will be more competive on i7 and much much cheaper.
So now we see the "slower but smoother" argument arise again........

I've owned a S939 Opteron, AM2 X2, AM2+ Phenom, LGA 775 E8400, and now a Core i7........... once you get to dual core and above, there is no difference in "response" on desktop apps. The i7 is no smoother than the E8400 when using IE and MS Word. A CPU having an IMC has nothing to do with response time on desktop apps. Memory performance might (to an extent) yet Phenom with its L3 cache has high memory latency and it doesn't really access memory much faster at all than the Core 2 CPUs. An IMC is not a magical device, it enables faster memory performance and that is all. You see a difference in response on desktop apps when you are comparing a P4 1GB system versus a modern quad-core/4GB system, not comparing two modern high end systems.