it really should help intel get around the problems they been having like to little fsb bandwith for their high end chips due to the cores using the FSB to talk to eachother as well as the fsb moving all that other data.......really becomes like a freeway at rushhour :P

Yeah, Intel platforms are bandwith hungry, always have been more or less.

specly the pentium-d, that netburst core is horribly banwith hungery, only thing they where good at was encoding media :/

i gope intel gets caught and fined.. its obvious that intel is really doing this.. and its screwing over amd and hurting the customer and making the prices of intel processors higher as amd doesn't have all too much to compete with intel.

forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=13607

then intel pays dell money under the table and

forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=52003

The whole Pentium 4 series is a pristine prime example of why we as consumers need to see AMD stay around. They ran hot (especially the Prescotts), the architecture was stagnant, and their biggest selling points were the absolute insane clock speeds of the core itself - which Intel only accomplished by jacking the ever loving crap out of the BUS multiplier - leaving you with a fast processor per a spec sheet, but being horribly hampered down by slow BUS speeds, leaving you with sub par performance that just looked really great on paper, and that's all the customer ever saw. We didn't see anything noteworthy from Intel until AMD struck back, and Intel responded by fumbling over itself by slapping two P4 cores together, instead of actually doing real R&D work. Anyhow, even if you're not an AMD fanboi, we should offer our support in this. Even to the consumer, it appears that Intel have played an iron fist over the years, and that we're all pretty sure they've been playing with a stacked deck, which just isn't right nor is it fair.