Quote Originally Posted by sabermetrics View Post
True, though its completely opposite to what Intel has done in the past couple years... a couple examples like

Q6600 B3 -> G0

Q9550 C1 -> E0

E8500 C0 -> E0

It would be strange for Intel to lower performance with a revision of a chip...
Yeha thats true But remember one thing Intel made the Q6600 too good and when they released the 45NM quads they started to produce lesser quality Q6600 chips because they were outdoing the 45nm parts a q6600 last year smokes a q6600 from this year both GO steepings