Quote Originally Posted by LIKMARK View Post
5 constructive posts as usual.

Please explain to me the "rules of comparison". I were not aware that I broke your laws of comparing two products. I did not know that if a product were bought on ebay, or was an ES (not released yet) it invalidated the entire comparison. If that rule applies. XS mods need to get their fingers out and moderate all those comparisons we see of new unreleased products. I did not know comparing one cpu setup with a two cpu setup were not allowed either. How would you know the benefits and drawbacks of one cpu system vs a two cpu system if those comparisons were not done?

Please show me where I have downplayed costs. I did not mention costs, this was mentioned by your friend Shintai, and to be honest he downplayed nehalem costs by not mentioning that you'll need a new board and ram.

In every other forum in the internet a comparison of a coming product with products that is out today would be welcomed, even appreciated, but not on XS. Here you get ridiculed by threadcrappers with the mods blessing, wich IMO shouts out where the closet stands. Pardon my bad english, hoping readers understand. That you classify comparing an AMD setup with an Intel setup as threadcrapping is beyond me.

Wonder what the comment would have been like if I compared the nehalem benches with another Intel system like MM is gonna do? Don't think you would have complained as much, probably would have been busy wtf qft bbq'ing all over the place in hope of getting a kind word from one of your heroes.

As for the fanboi remarks, I have my share of Intel setups, so you know where to put those remarks.

On the other hand being marked as a fanboi by you and Shintai almost wants me to bear the mark proudly.

I bought a dual socket system on ebay, and chose AMD because it was cheap, and I find K10 more fun to play with than Core2 and it's FSB. Just as Nehalem will be more fun to play with because of it's advanced arcitechture.

Well thats as much energy I'm gonna use on your remarks. (Much more than what you deserve).

@MM: I'm gonna quote you from deepthought86's thread in the "Forum FAQs and Guidelines" section :

Aww come ON, I don't understand why you mods let them continue degrading the quality of XS.

Quote from DeepThought86:

The best suggestion I have heard here on XS, actually it is sig material..

@Villa1n: Watch your back and don your flamesuit for not agreeing with the news section mascot.
Where to start..
Yes, you quoted me correctly about Donnie and Shintai.
can I tell you something?
BOTH I actually got to know after asking both to calm down a bit in the threads so I wasn't exactly predisposed to be their "best buddy"
BUT I found both to be pretty sharp guys that knew their stuff.
Shintai's knowledge is at a level that most here couldn't touch but he is still reasonably young( by my perspective at age 56) and the passions of youth do enter his posts.
That doesn't take away from his knowledge, just taint's it with passion.
Now to you and I have no issues with you at all, I think the problem came up from trying to compare your 8 core to the 4 core Bloomfield.
Just not a reasonable comparision at all.
Forget HT, it's not part of the equation in this regard.
4 cores vs 8 just doesn't fly.
Cripes, I remember beating FUGGER's Cinebench score with his Yorkfield at 5500MHz on his cascade with my clovertown on air at 3258..
You can't compare them so this point has to be dropped.
This again, is why I offered to compare my Harper vs your AMD since we don't have a fully functional 8 core Nehalem to use for a comparison.
It would show at the very least how the current AMD stands up against the current Intel core for core and that is a valid comparision.
Now it's 2:50am here, I have a plumber coming at 8:30am so I need some sleep. We can pick this up in 18 hours or so if you wish and I'd prefer it if we all could do this as friends in search of knowledge not people swinging hammers at one another. That benefits no one and just makes my two typing fingers feel like lead at the end of the day.
My best to you all..
Good night..