Quote Originally Posted by ShAdOwCoN View Post

And yes this is the main reason , there are other minor reasons in which both QPI and AMD score against each other , but this is the one that counts .The External bus is the most important for any device , its the supply line ... without enough data going to and fro from the processor the processor can never process much data however fast it is ..... so the speeds are very determinable, thats the reason y they decided to replace FSB with QPI and HT
Hmm..... but the Intel core2's were chocked bcos of the fsb system, but they were still faster than the phenoms ? IMO, the phenoms lack that RAW power,they need totally a new architecture itself. But then again, they are not aiming for the top, they(AMD) are aiming at bang4buck.