Intel Q9450 vs Phenom 9850 - ATI HD3870 X2

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Look, your claim in this thread is that in high res gaming, that the FSB cannot handle all the little threads poking around and that Intel's CPU performs poorly because of the FSB, thus Phenom is best.

I will not argue that high res gaming shows them neck and neck based on the data. But if your FSB argument is true, you do not need to see the code to make an emperical observation. Based on your hypothesis, the FSB is saturated, so if I lower the FSB speed I should take a performance hit....

If you are talking about games you should test a game that is communicating with the GPU and is using memory at the same time (there will be conflicts in the FSB that increase latency, amd has no conflicts there). Then you will see big improvements for AMD. More and more advanced games will run better and better on AMD. If the game is using more than one thread to render data then AMD will perform better.
I haven’t read what you have written about Lost Planet. I need to check some tests before I can tell you something about that game. How it scales, how it is using threading etc

EDIT: Checked two tests on Lost planet

Here is one: http://techreport.com/articles.x/14424/4

Comparing QX9650 and QX6850, isn't the main difference cache size? That would mean that Lost Planet likes a big cache (is there other differences between these two processors?)