Intel Q9450 vs Phenom 9850 - ATI HD3870 X2

[Cooper]

Doubtful because:

1) Clock per clock the Core 2 CPUs are faster than the Phenoms
2) The operating frequencies of the Core 2 CPUs are way higher than those of AMD's Phenoms.
3) The "scaling" advantage of AMD's with Quad-Cores isn't good enough to cover the Clock per clock performance gap.
4) Unfortunately in most games ( if not all ) in real-life gaming settings ( resolutions, game details and AA/AF ) the minimum framerate depends on the graphics card, just like the average & maximum framerates.

from market's perspective

1) insignificantly in games
2) for a cost
3) scaling is the same as for Intel's CPUs. Platform's scaling is higher
4) true, though not sure about the "unfortunately" part. There should be a reason to buy high-end GPUs


From Mods point of view

I think some of you guys need to edit your posts as per forum policies to conduct clean no-flaming-or-name-calling policy.
Apparently these people cannot oppose in a polite manner