Quote Originally Posted by Haltech View Post
Umm Circa 1999.. Athlon blows Pentium 3 out of the water...
How old were you back then if you have such a poor memory ?

K7 and P3 were on par IPC wise ( gains were ussualy were SSE/3DNOW was being used ).Late on P3's life , K7 managed to out do it , MHz wise.
Early P4 ( Willy core ) sucked = > early 2000 to early 2002 AMD on top. Anyway , their succes was shadowed by the crappy chipsets they had.

Circa A64.. Same thing repeats.
Only in 2004 K8 managed to out do the top Northwoods and the victory was obvious with the advent of dual cores in 2005.My oh my how things turned in 2006

So out of 25 years of x86 history we have 4 years with AMD on top.Go eat your bananas now.