Quote Originally Posted by jimbo75 View Post
Where is this "killed in gaming" you are seeing here?
well the way i see it if its only just beating a 4 core chip like the 2500k in multithreaded tasks with its 8 cores then its performance vs 2500k in games that only make use of 1-4 cores will be about half

the only way those charts could turn out to show bd is better at gaming is if the reason it beats the 2500k and not the 2600k is due to the extra 4 cores scaling much the same or worse than ht over the first 4 cores but this seems unlikely

so im realy hopeing those charts are a load of crap or this cpu may be another dud

that chart showing some odd games performance suggests for some resson crossfire is working better on the amd platform than intel in some cases
if that is the case it may still do ok in games that are gpu bottlnecked when running crossfire and at the moment these games do outway the number of games that are cpu bottlnecked so this could be a fairly good thing