IPC is Intel's weapon right now, so it can't be ignored in any honest debate, especially since a quad-core 2.66 GHZ part is beating a hexa-core 3.2GHZ part. The point is moot anyways since the competitor product has higher ipc and can overclock even better with non-extreme cooling.
You mentioned "honest debate" in the same sentence where you then pretend that the chips are always running at their base clocks. If IPC is as important as you claim, then we must know the true running frequency in all benchmarks; otherwise any debate is worthless.
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