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To: Petz who wrote (197120)	5/16/2006 4:12:20 PM
From: eracer	Respond to of 275872

Re: For a large class of algorithms, including almost all encryption, decryption, audio processing and some video processing, the bottleneck is memory bandwidth. And as you know, Conroe's 1333 FSB can't even handle the memory bandwidth of two DDR2-800 channels, let alone a couple PCIe channels, gigabit ethernet and future coprocessor... I believe you are greatly overestimating the impact of memory bandwidth here. The Core Duo already performs well in audio and video processing benchmarks even with a 667MHz FSB. While the lack of memory bandwidth will negatively impact performance in these type of benchmarks architecture still has a strong influence on performance.