Quote Originally Posted by Astennu View Post
In some tests. But The HD4850 is to slow. They sould try a HD4870 / X2 or a GTX280.

When there are crunching tests the Intel CPU's are way faster. Just as i feared. Integer performance of the K10,5 is as bad as that of the K10 and K8. AMD did not upgrade that for a wile. And now that the i7 has all the good things like on die MC and a fast bus. AMD i lost again.

PHII realy stands against the 45nm Penryn cpu's. I hope there next cpu (bulldozer ??) will be on par with the refresh of Nehalem. (Sandy Bridge ??)
For crunching it stands even below the Penryn in some cases but how many of us do you think regularly have to crunching data. On the other hand people who buy such CPU's do game a lot and that is where the improvements made to the core seem quite good.

Would you rather spend money on an i7 that performs almost same as a cheaper PhII does??? Plus on top the added cost of M/b etc