AMD Phenom II 920 & 940 Full Review

[accord99]

It seems that it's pretty clear at this point that i7 is the CPU to get for raw performance. But it also appears Phenom II will be fairly attractive for gaming and price. And honestly, the backwards compatibility is huge. Makes the Phenom adopters very happy I bet.

Why? I mean they could have gone Intel C2Q and already have the same or better performance in games. And given the competitive situation of the last 2.5 years and the incompatible nature of many Socket AM2s, I doubt the upgrade market is particularly large. Meanwhile, people who went with Intel aren't going to bother with at best a lateral upgrade.

[Zucker2k]

Why? I mean they could have gone Intel C2Q and already have the same or better performance in games. And given the competitive situation of the last 2.5 years and the incompatible nature of many Socket AM2s, I doubt the upgrade market is particularly large. Meanwhile, people who went with Intel aren't going to bother with at best a lateral upgrade.

Why do that, when you can wait 2 years for a Q6600 performance?

[Zucker2k]

cut the crap, phenom2 is much more then something with q6600 performance...

Sorry, I don't debate blind fanboys!

Edit: I love your sig; gives me a warm feeling.

[Tiridum]

Sorry, I don't debate blind fanboys!

sure no problem

the way I see it:

• phenom2 = similar performance with Core2 (5% in both directions)
• phenom2 does have a small die size, much smaller then i7 so they can sell it cheaper then any i7
• phenom2 uses a much cheaper platform then i7
• phenom2 isn't a competitor for i7
• phenom2 is a very nice midrange cpu, low watts, low temp
• people can finally start choosing amd again, because their performance really sucked with agena

even though i have a Intel E8400, I really like to buy a deneb if overclocks are good, i don't care about stockspeeds