According to mayur , its just the frequency which matters , so according to his theory , if a P4 with 4 ghz clock speed and 256k cache and 100 mhz bus speed with work as fast as a P4 4 ghz 1024 mhz bus speed and 2 MB l2 cache ? so why doesnt a p4 and celeron doest give the same performance at the same clock frequency ?
and as far as the technology goes , intel at present have serious problems in scaling the 800 mhz bus speed to 1024 mhz and getting a clock speed of over 3.8 ghz and the heating problems which the prescott had right from the beginning .Why do you think that intel now have started naming their processors as 520 , 540 , 560 , 320 etc ? If AMD was never even close to Intel then Intel wouldnt have never made the P4 EE processors (XEON CUT DOWN VERSION),wouldnt have never increased the BUS speed , the 128 bit memory and other enhancements .Intel have over 165 million transistors in their flagship processors whereas AMD64 flagship processor only has about 109 transistors with IBM's SOI technology.IF intel would had lesser transistors in their processors ,the processors would have run a lot cooler. AMD on the other hand have a very scalable architecture with A64 , which scales very well both in HT link increase from 1600MHZ to 2.0 GHZ ,easy increase in clock speed and at the same time processors have a perfect thermal solution.This was not the case with AMD's barton CPU's .... did anyone tried to overclock a 3200+ xp , its simply unstable , or if you try to overclock any other barton cpu's beyond 3200+ is simply unstable and thats where the A64's come in.This year AMD has the lead over intel no matter what anyone says .Its the truth , face it mayur !