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GDHardware also has an interview with Intel - this is one that goes into more detail about their new Core 2 Duo CPUs.

GDHardware's article: http://www.gdhardware.com/hardware/cpus/intel/conr oe/X6800_E6700/001.htm That thing SMOKES ol' AMD... for now at least...

For a definition of MiB see this wikipedia article -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte

And here is a random review that includes the actual cache numbers -- http://www.gdhardware.com/hardware/cpus/amd/athlon 64/fx57/001.htm

'My point was that Intel has not been behind AMD in memory bandwidth in recent memory. At most times, including right now, they are ahead of AMD in memory bandwidth.' On the other hand, they seem to be behind on the memory benchmarks, so claiming higher memory bandwidth seems suspect: http://www.gdhardware.com/hardware/cpus/amd/athlon 64/fx57/003.htm ' As to your comments that memory manufacturers say DDR2 prices aren't going to drop, I could find nothing like that at all. Most news sources say DDR2 prices will drop below DDR prices in the 2nd half of the year. More specific news says things like I mentioned above.' 'But regardless of the reasons, as DDR2 drops in price below DDR, many Athlon users are going to wish they could use DDR2.' DDR prices will rise above DDR2 as DDR becomes phased out: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24059 DDR2 isn't coming down much more, and neither is DDR: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/memory/display/200506 16222515.html The information is widely available on Asian sites, and gets picked up from time to time by sites like theinquirer and xbitlabs. Since it's from the DRAM manufacturers and OEMs, it's better than Tom's, which is notoriously unreliable. If you want to make it easy on yourself, just read digitimes and xbitlabs every day. But to your point about wishing they could run DDR2, people looking for performance will be buying DDR3, a much better technical solution than DDR2, and AMD offers DDR2 next year when DDR finally is at a disadvantage. 'I dunno about Intel copying AMD's plans. I haven't heard anything of it. ' http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/200506152 32538.html From a practical standpoint, memory bandwidth benchmarks show AMD is ahead, so I think the rest of the discussion is somewhat moot.