Quote Originally Posted by Chad Boga View Post
Nehalem isn't that power hungry at stock speeds and whilst the GTX280 is outperformed by the 4870x2, Nehalem doesn't have an equivalent concern.
Nehalem should be power hungry for all the people who were laughin' 'n troll'n how Phenom was power hungry. There ain't hard numbers for PhII yet, but thus far i7 920 uses more than Q9450, upto 20% if not more. There are quite some positive articles going around saying that AMD's 45nm SOI process might actually be better than Intel's 45nm HKMG process. As said, we'll have to wait.

And to be honest, Im quite curious how PhII 940BE stands out against an equally priced i7 920 really. GTX280 doesnt lose everywhere, although in quite some applications it does, but Im not so sure how these two CPU's go up against each other regarding your 'non-equivalent concern' Something tells me this might be quite close actually. At most we've one month to go so we'll see by then heh