How important is the HTspeed of AM2 boards when it comes to upgrading to AM3

[eternalone]

I have noticed is that the AM2 boards with the Hyper Transport 1000MHz (2000 MT/s) do have a noticeable significant slow down on AM3 cpus's compared to those with the 2600MHz Hyper Transport (5200 MT/s). Also i have noticed that the boards with Hyper Transport 1000MHz seem to overvolt the phenom 2's. Has anyone encountered this same phenomenon? Maybe im just very picky.

 

[lopri]

AM2 boards do not have separate power planes for CPU-core and CPU-NB. If you're purchasing a new board for a Phenom II or Athlon II CPU, AM2+/AM3 boards are highly recommended.

HT speed itself isn't much of a factor of performance, except when IGP performance matters. Since HT transfers data from CPU and NB (not to be confused with CPU-NB), IGP performance is better with faster HT speed. If you are using a discrete GPU this becomes a non-issue.