Quote Originally Posted by Chumbucket843 View Post
they did not double pump anything in SB and it's core size is larger than westmere's by a considerable amount.
No it's not... take a look yourself:
http://citavia.blog.de/2010/04/14/a-...no-2x-8371390/



If you consider the 1.2mm2 "a considerable amount",then you are correct sir.
The SSE part of the core has changed negligibly .Where is the widened(256bit) SSE logic?How did it fit inside the same die area?