Quote Originally Posted by zanzabar View Post
there are 2 things that people on XS seam to forget every time, 1) the intel parts generally suck at stock clocks since the ram and IO are overall limited and the intel turbo dose not kick in with 4 threaded games like BF3, and 2)
What has stock clocks got to do with RAM and IO ? turbo mode does not improve RAM and IO speed, it only raises the multiplier of the CPU.

And Intel sucked in memory throughput in up to Core2 CPUs when memory controller was on the motherboard, since moving it on the CPU in socket 1156 and 1155 platforms Intel actually has higher memory throughput.