AMD: Barcelona quad-core 50% faster than Intel’s quad-core Xeon

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Umm Circa 1999.. Athlon blows Pentium 3 out of the water...

Circa A64.. Same thing repeats.

Who are YOU to say who is full of and who isnt? Wait for the release. Either you will eat a shovel full of your own fanboy , or you walk away with no turds on your bib. Either way, being a fanboy is the lamest thing you can be.

I own both, so a fanboy I'm not. Why am I saying that AMD is full of ,? Who's seen these benches beyond AMD walls?

Release some god damn benches by now and throw us a freaking bone.

AMD doesn't seem to understand their userbase. Sure us hardcore freaks account for maybe 1% - 2% of their total sales, but that 1% probably represents 10% or more based on word of mouth. I build atleast a hundred systems a year. They used to be about 85% based on Athlon 64's; now that number has dwindled to about 15%. I'm one person out of thousands who now recommends Intel systems. If you want me to tell my customers/friends to wait for something better from AMD, then let me know what's coming down the pipeline and what it's capable of.

I don't need to know every thing about the chip, but some nice video/audio encoding benches mixed with a few game benches would do just fine.