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To: eracer who wrote (212703)	10/5/2006 4:34:19 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Eracer: On heavy loads, the 4x4 will perform much better as Kentsfield will get to memory through the FSB straw rather than the dual IMC large pipes. On HPC loads, the Woodcrest sucks wind and that was with 2 FSB straws. And 4x4 gives AMD the option of using coprocessors for the second two cores. Physics ones for games, vector FPUs for HPC apps, encryption engines for security apps, etc. Then 4x4 just blows Kentsfield out of the water for performance per dollar or performance per watt. And like usual, we will find that Kentsfield uses more power on heavy workloads than 4x4 when you take memory and chipset into account. And that's before the AMD all stars (K8L based) arrive burying Kentsfield six feet under the field. Pete