Quote Originally Posted by dess View Post
Can I sincerely ask how are these (i7 numbers) possible with stock ram frequency? I mean, top bandwidth for DDR3-1600 (the max. that SB officially supports) 12800 MB/s... Even with DDR3-1866 you get 14933...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3
Ehhmm ... you heard of dual channel my friend?
Take your numbers times 2, then you have the theoretical maximum bandwidth ... intel is quite good in using it, AMD well - at least better then before and they have lots of cache this time. Memory should not be an issue as long as the caches are fine and fast ;-)
However, it seems they are not