Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
Just small correction,Phenom X2 GE-6600(the same as 6500 BE,only with locked multi) is clocked @ 2.3Ghz ,not @2.5Ghz.


Yeah SuperPI,and reviews like this:
http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/...re/1810_1.html

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.
Thanks for the correction.

Also those test suites are usually designed with Intel architectures in mind. The Phenom is not a synthetic bench whore. In fact, according to David Kanter and a few other people that have analyzed the K10 design, it is supposed to excel at dynamic workloads and floating point intensive apps. Multithreaded gaming and server applications seem to show that.