BAD HARDWARE WEEK

AMD think that something is rotten in Nehalem kingdom. Intel's Quickpath (copy of AMD's HT) technology is far behind the schedule. Idea was to deliver Quickpath together with new core architecture to the broad market by the year end. But seems that something went wrong, and after that INTEL's Quickpath became Quicksuck TM technology.

The key phrase in Intel's literature is "up to" -- that could mean 6.4 GB/sec is a maximum or peak rate, rather than a sustained rate.

For comparison: PCI Express is the most common expansion bus used in PCs today. It typically uses a signaling rate of 2.5 GHz, which should theoretically enable as much as 8 GB/sec. In practice, that theory goes out the window, as the usual perceived transfer rate is more like 250 MB/sec.

Beside, you can forget all DDR3 2000 modules with voltages over 1.65V. ANd without fast memory, you can only fast ... suck.