Quote Originally Posted by kl0012 View Post
I really don't see motivation to use 6-core with DDR2 which can turn into bottleneck for many cores CPUs. After all AMD CPUs has less advanced mem prefetch/disambiguous technologes then Intel's Core.
6 MB L3 cache does make i hard to see the difference between DDR2 and DDR3.

Applications that use much memory will probably get less performance with prefetch technology.