Quote Originally Posted by accord99 View Post
Except where are these applications which the C2D benchmarks better yet the Phenom performs better? If it does and is noticeable, it should be easy enough to measure.
Do you accept the fact that not every experience that a user will undergo when using a certain setup is reproducable? Because that is what a lot of users are mentioning here.

Sure, Intel wins in a lot of benchmarks. But those benchmarks only show an incomplete performancechart. A lot of experience depends on things like responsiveness et al, but those things are far less perfectly reproducable, thus rendered useless for benchmarking. A competitor can perform lousy at the typical suite of benchmark, but surprise the common user in the gray area of performance, which is what is discussed here.

So when throwing with the typical benchmarks where Intel supposedly wins, you should know that the betterness of AMD which users are experiencing isn't covered by that typical testsuite of benchmarks, but rather is in that grey zone of performance where objective measurement is more complex and difficult.

This isn't just an excuse to suck at typical benchmarks though, but if several users confirm this theory, I'd like to believe them. Not everyone speaks out of fanboyism. Although there is a social theory that states that a person likes the item he bought more than the item he didn't buy, just because he bought it. But that argument is null and void since most users here have an Intel and an AMD setup. Total objectiveness can never be achieved, but we can presume we're getting close. Or maybe not?