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[jhalada]

gb,

One benefit is slightly lower power consumption. As far as performance benefit, there is only slight, since:
a) most apps are not bandwidth limited
b) according to Hans, there is a bottleneck in K8 memory controller allowing the full benefit of the DDR-800 memory to be realized only at 3.2 GHz clock speed, a little bit down the road, and even when fully realized, the performance benefit will be limited because of a)

Joe