Quote:But I understand where you are coming from since I know that the duo cores run on 2.5.
I guess the older I7's do too.
What? Core 2 series cpus don't use a QPI bus. They use the old front side bus which is clocked at either 1066MHz or 1333MHz.
QPI is used to connect the cores to each other internally and the L3 cache and the NB. DMI is used to connect the north and south bridge chipsets in LGA1366. DMI was also used to connect the bridge chipsets in the LGA775 platform. LGA1156 has no NB however despite what that page may say the 800 series and below do still have a QPI bus, however they connect to the SB through DMI instead of QPI. However like lamedude said since the memory and pci-e controllers are on the cpu it won't make any difference that it's using DMI.
Quote:you dont need an i7 core 99.9% of software and 100% of emulators are only optimized for dual core CPUs. i have a q6600 overclocked to 2.8ghz and when i monitor system performence windows , linux and mac only use the first 2 cores. unless your trying to run 5 emulators and 3 virtual versions of windows you wont get any better performence with your i7 core then i do with this q6600 if they're clocked at the same speed. what you need to do like the reply above me suggest is to get some triple channell DDR3 supported motherboard and get you a E8000 series core 2 dou or a QX9000 series quad core
First of all triple channel is only supported by the LGA1366 platform, LGA775 is strictly dual channel. Second of all that entire post is totally untrue. Performance per clock is much higher with an i7 processor, and memory bandwidth/read/write performance is much better as well. Dolphin is much faster on an i7 than any other cpu series out at the moment. This is widely excepted as fact on these forums due to the many people that have upgraded from high end core 2 duo/quad to an i7 and noted the massive gains in performance.
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