Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
lol again this strange review...
I was thinking the same thing it seems that AMD CPU fanboys which are really dedicated to the cause (those who refuse to leaving in droves like pilgrims to the promised land of Core2) always rake that review out.

I think..

They have a point, it's nothing to do with the CPU, but more to do with the chipsets I belive the AMD chipsets have a faster or a more favourable PCI-E 2.0 controller, either that or Intel X38 and X48 boards require a BIOS update to ensure that there are no bottlenecks at higher resolutions


I vaguely remember reading something along the lines (slightly off topic) that Intel ICH only offers six PCI Express lanes, while AMD relies on its north bridges for PCIe links, but that might not be true.

Anyway I think ATi have done something to reduce microstutter (judging by the results in this thread), however it looks like it might still be around...only subjectively though...or very hard to detect.

John