Quote Originally Posted by Zucker2k View Post
The lower clocked C2Q Q9550 is actually head to head with PII 940 and beats it by a wider margin, Imagine would Q9650 would do at 3Ghz, just like PII 940. Now I'm not a mathematician so you do the math.
Wasn't PII only suposed to match c2d 65nm?
Quote Originally Posted by Zucker2k View Post
I think talks of ATi 4000 series and Nvidia is a little bit premature here; Intel has too many good weapons to fight this battle.
You right, Intel ain't Nvidia, but K10 65nm to K10 45nm, feels a bit like R600 to R700, better then expected.

Overall things are going like expected, AMD is closing the gap in the desktop, Intel will be huge in the server arena.