Quote Originally Posted by hurleybird View Post
I love how discussions like these bring out the stupid in stupid people.

*sigh*

First off, it's not Coolaler, it's some guy on the site's forum. Secondly, remember the original Athlon previews? Even if somebody credible were to bench the chip, the results would still be bogus it it were bugged.
How about the AM2 previews, they turned out to be correct. Performance decrease vs DDR-400 unless paired with DDR2-800 memory.

Thirdly, Rahul Sood has stated that the 3GHz Phenom is considerably faster than all of AMD and Intel's current offerings. These benchmarks fly against Rahul's claims, and, quite frankly, I trust Rahul Sood just a bit more than some guy on some forum who's possibly using bugged chip/mainboard/bios to boot!
Sood also questioned the initial Conroe benchmarks so I doubt he really knows much more than anybody else.