Quote Originally Posted by Clairvoyant129 View Post
I don't think Intel fans are nervous, with the slowest 920 Nehalem outperforming QX9650 occasionally in several benches. I'm one of the few people who would like AMD to do better but very skeptical after the Barcelona debacle. 40%+ performance improvement over Clovertown and all we see is actually the opposite of that.

And are you implying that the Phenom 9950 outperforms Q6600? I highly doubt that.

http://www.matbe.com/articles/lire/1...urs/page30.php

In terms of relative performance, Q6600 does outperform the Phenom 9950. If you're talking about $/performance ratio, that's a different story.
The 9950 does outperform a Q6600

http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-ph...cessor-tested/