"The architecture" lol I loved that answer.
On the whole Hammer discussion (I just kinda skimped through the show) the hammer won\'t clock as high as the P4, but it calculates more data on every clock cycle.
It wasn\'t ever designed to clock high like the P4, also it will have over a 100 million transsystors so if they clock it too high it\'ll melt.
The Hammer will really be a huge jump from the normal architecture, I hear it\'ll have an integraded north bridge and it\'s designed around Hyper Transport from the get go.
And the Alienware PC, I doubt it was the ram or the mobo that was limiting it, most likely badly setup drivers, IIRC the 9700 doesn\'t ship with the Catalyst drivers which are a whole lot better than the older ones.