Anyone who takes the slightest bit of notice of HardOCP's tri-sli results needs to look again..

I don't know why the i7 platform gets such huge FPS compared to anything else, but it's been seen before also.

If you look at the scaling between PhII @ 3.2 and at 3.8, you can see it's barely any different. If it was a CPU (and i mean just CPU) related bottleneck, it would take a 6-10Ghz PHenom II to match a 3.2 i7. Totally unrealistic, There's nothing at a technical level to give bloomfield a 300% adavntage at low res. Not even HT.

Penryn isn't much better.. you can't tell me a tri-channel IMC, and QPI can account for that massive difference. Especially when PhII shares similar technology and it doesn't give it any advantage here..

There's a toms Hardware review with similar odd results somewhere also.

I'm not suggesting anyones making up numbers here, just I would LOVE to find out the cause of this. If I had endless cash i'd certainly configure such systems up and investigate it properly.