Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
Clock for clock,Agena core was ~5-6% slower than Kentsfield core(in stuff people actually use on their computer-no superpi lovin' and smilar).This would mean that you would need ~3.78-3.8Ghz Agena chip to equal a 3.6Ghz Kentsfield(which will never happen since there are no 3.8Ghz Agena chips that can run like that 24/7).Deneb on average should be from 7 to 10% faster than Agena,clock for clock, in real world apps and with equal settings(ram,L3 etc).This means Deneb at 3.6Ghz is more than a match for Kentsfield(I'd say it would handily beat it in majority of applications-excluding SPi,Sisoftsandra and the likes).Also,at 3.6Ghz it will draw less power and dissipate less heat.At 4Ghz it would be no contest between the two since Kentsfield would never reach that clock for 24/7 and would be a good deal slower than Deneb...
I think the thread was closed last night, partly due to "flamewars" between a certain type of fans and dissidents (I would not use the words of Nasgul).
And partly due to "endless-loop-posts" like the one I am quoting regarding "normal apps everybody is using".
This is xs, not your regular "chatter-forum".
But yes, there will be little difference in "performance" to open files, surf the net using MSN, Facebook and running torrents for all the music/films that is "must have" on the average 2TB disks.
We that bench and like to read about wr at xs.org really, really do not care one bit about these "apps".
If you get my point.

Kudos to the greek gurus for this review/comparisons.