Am I Missing Something here???

[arDAWG]

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjAwLDY=

I read thru this review & granted it's a decent oc'ing board for the price....how is this a bargain compared to a good mobile Barton setup???
E.g.,
MSI PT880 Neo LSR = $64
P4 2.4a Prescott = $148
Thermalright SP94 = $53.99
=$265.99

DFI Infinity = $95
Mobile Barton 2600 = $101
Thermalright SP97 = $57.99
=$253.99

Price would be $229.99 w/ the 2400 Mobile. Even w/ the top o' the line mobile Barton this setup is cheaper....that's my point. Attaining a 250 fsb w/ the Infinity is not rocket science (according to what I've seen)...now it seems to me that this would smoke a P4 system running @ a ~184 fsb. I could be wrong, as I'm not really that familar w/ Intel systems...idk what the mem bandwidth would be @ 184 fsb. Educate me if I'm way off base here.

 

[arDAWG]

Guess I need to reword this. I'm not being contrarian here or trying to start an AMD/ Intel flame war. I'm considering buying a Via 880/ Prescott 2.4A system & I'm wondering if my money would be well spent here.
I know w/ the 18x multi that I won't be able to achieve that high of an fsb on air, so maybe the 880's limited oc'ing won't be a factor. Still it seems w/ a mobile chip and an Infinity I could prolly get better performance. As I said, however, I'm not that familar w/ Intel based systems. I've worked on quite a few in business/ end user environments, but therein it was all Dell, Gateway, HP-Compac or a few OEM's. OC'ing was neither possible nor an option. Plus it was mainly fixing Windows snafus and a little mucking around in the bios. I understand the dividers, in theory & I know that the quad-pumped p4's are not really 800mhz fsb...the question is, in fine, if I'm limited to an fsb of 200 or below won't that seriously affect 3d/ gaming performance vs., say, running higher fsb's w/ an AMD based system???