Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
uh noes..... her we go again... phenom (even b3) is slower clock for clock then kentsfield for desktops apps.

nice that you show this with your own data (phenom need 2.6ghz to beat a 2.4ghz kentsfield...)
I've managed to avoid the worst of the Intel VS AMD battle thats been raging through here the past few months, but I cant help but feel the need to defend AMD when there are people implying Barcelona is slow compared to Kentsfield. It's just absolutely not.

In the review I linked to there was also a 9850 in the roundup, which is clocked less than a 100Mhz faster yet still beats out the Q6600 in many of the tests (of which most are based around normal desktop applications. Data compression, video transcoding etc).

Yes, I (anyone with a degree of knowledge or sense) will happily agree that Intel CPU's are simply better for overclocking, which plagued the early Phenom's and SB600 motherboards, but nowadays it's very easy to match the performance of a mid range quad core Intel machine with an AM2+ one. It's that simple.