Quote Originally Posted by Blaber View Post
I agree with you that if you right now have any Intel quad , then there's no reasons to switch unless you like to play with the new phenom II , but for any one building a new system , Phenom II providing as good performance and overclock ability, much much better power draw than Phenom1 (Could be better that COMPETITION , but no reviews till now on this) ,running really COOL as competing Intel products for a decent price AND OBVIOUSLY NOT TO END UP WITH A DEAD PLATFORM...Socket775, Phenom II specially the AM3 socket really looks good.
Only one problem, C2Q will either match or beat all the things you mention. Only thing left is upgradeability, but how important is that when it looks like it will take at least a new architecture from Amd to surpass Intel's performance.