whats kinda bugging me is that in the benches shown there the phenom X2 is hardly performing over the old athlon X2. i would have expexted a larger difference between a previous and new generation CPU to be honest.

i only just got my quad core (good old poor students) and its hardly broken a sweat on anything yet, its my first intel core since i got into computers years ago as often the AMD ones were cheaper and clocked nicely (mainly reffering to the 1700xp's that could clock to 3000xp's).

but i've been very impressed with the new quad, it clocked very very well, was priced well and it feels leagues ahead to be honest.