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Originally Posted by kamspy
Only problem I see is that Intel processor. Better get that thing out of there fast. Pretty sure you can't even run Commander Keen with an Intel CPU. Those things are like 1/10 the physical weight of their respective and dominative AMD counterparts.
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OMG you didn't!
Haha, you should look at the new tri-core AMD Phenoms. They cost more, and in performance-per-cost were out performed by Intel Dual Core Wolfdales and barely won on multi-thread applications.
3 is better than 2, but 2 performances better than 3 in 80% of real world applications (of which gaming is one of those non-multithread applications.)
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=3293&p=8
Hehe. AMD was king with the K7-series, to bad the K8 can't compete with the new Intel families.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...px?i=3293&p=10
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If you step back and look at it, the triple-core Phenom story isn't unexpected at all. In applications where quad-core benefits, triple-core does too and in those applications where it doesn't, we don't see much from the new Phenom X3...AMD's triple-core Phenom is a quick and dirty way of using Phenom to compete in the dual-core space.
AMD doesn't have the resources to spin a dual-core Phenom die, so what better way of repurposing the quad-core die (especially if one core is defective) than to make a Phenom chip with less than four cores....
Let's start at the Phenom X3 8750; it's priced too closely to the X4 9750 to make sense, if you need more than two cores spend the extra $20 and get a quad-core (or give up 200MHz and get a quad-core X4 9550 at the same price) and if you don't need more than two cores then you're looking at the wrong CPU to begin with.
The Phenom X3 8650 manages to perform at about the level of a 2.00GHz - 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo processor in many applications, the problem is that it needs to compete with a 3.00GHz Core 2 Duo to make economic sense. In many cases, the 8650 is competitive but with higher power consumption it's hard to call it a winner here.
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I've been waiting years to say "HA" to you AMD fanboys! Hehe. Intel is king, again, like it should be!
