Quote Originally Posted by Mechromancer
The 2.5Ghz GE-6600 is 10% faster than the 3.0Ghz X2 6000+ in GRID and matches it in the other apps according to these tests: Translated PCGH Test
Just small correction,Phenom X2 GE-6600(the same as 6500 BE,only with locked multi) is clocked @ 2.3Ghz ,not @2.5Ghz.
Quote Originally Posted by Mechromancer
These things are WAY faster clock for clock than the 6000+! This is a 700Mhz difference we're talking about and it is 10% faster? It is basically the same clock for clock as the Core 2 Duo. Notice all the Phenoms perform very close clock for clock to comparable Intel chips in this test. Why did the Phenom get such a bad rap? Because of bad SuperPi results?
Yeah SuperPI,and reviews like this:
http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/...re/1810_1.html
Contents:

1. Introduction
2. 9950+ Features
3. Spider Platform System Build
4. Test Setup and Overclocking
5. CPU Bench 2004
6. PCMark Vantage
7. PCMark05
8. Sysmark 2007
9. 3DMark
10. Pifast
11. SpecViewPerf10
12. Conclusion
Now look at the test suit and tell me wth is that? Apart from SpecViewPerf10 that has some real world apps inside,all the rest is pure synthetic crap.But it's much easier to test a CPU by running 10 synthetic one-click bs tests than real world performance where you actually have to sit down and measure the time/run actual applications and write some data and compare it.