Not quite... I assume you're alluding to FSB saturation and/or bottleneck due to the "slow" speeds of DDR2? Which is complete garbage, DDR2 1066 is every bit as fast as DDR3 1333, proof -> http://www ...

I read your post... and now my head hurts :P. AMD roadmaps have shown that DDR3 support will only be available for both 45nm CPUs and AM3 platforms. The lack of DDR3 support on AM2+ platforms is n ...

"For the most part, the Q9300 owned the night. It generally outpaced the old Q6600 quad core and the new Phenom quad core in most of our tests. In a clock-for-clock test, we would declare the Q9300 th ...