Quote Originally Posted by nn_step View Post
WRONG, it is still true. Yes I agree that Intel's Quads perform better than AMD's dual cores in many respects but not in all respects. For Example, Virtualization. AMD has hardware support for many(all) used virtualization instructions, Intel does not. Thus AMD can do in 6 clock cycles what takes Intel a hundred regular instructions with latencies ranging from 1 clock cycle to hundreds of clock cycles. So that even in a best case scenario, AMD's 6 clock cycles still owns Intel's 100 clock cycles. Thus even with Quadruple the numbers of Cores, double the clock speed it doesn't make up for the 16 fold superior performance that AMD has for the given task.
I'm not suggesting it is a common situation, nor will it even matter in a desktop but it is an area that AMD's tradeoffs give them superior performance.
seriously who gives a about virtualisation

until they make it work properly with true indepenent workloads off one computer VT is a load of crap IMO

i want my ONE computer to simulataneously play games in one room, surf the net in another and be a full blown HTPC with HDTV feed and real time recording in the third, hell while i'm at it hook up my room 4 and 5 with some movie playback as well