Quote Originally Posted by marten_larsson View Post
You're of course right in that way that some seem to be pounding the "it's more economic to buy a PII than a completely new platform" and at the same time want to wait for the DDR3 performance but at the same time; when the AM3 platform is introduced the prices will probably be lower and AM3 motherboards will probably not be as expensive as the Intel X58 counterparts.

Besides, this thread has completely gone off track as so many other AMD threads. Not even in the AMD forum the threads are sacred from the Intel bashing from some users. Most people said that PII performance would be on par with C2Q ~9400-9600. But some pro-Intel users claim that all AMD-fans were claiming i7 performance.
Absolutely QFT and I'm glad someone gets it IMHO, Phenom doesn't have to regain the speed crown, it needs to keep AMD solidly in the Game. Even though it wasn't as fast, I think it did well enough. I'd also hoped that AMD would have shipped all of the AM2 and AM3 models simultaneously. So then that upgrade path would look a lot better. Some could keep their old boards while others could just start out completely new!

So yes, let's get the thread back on topic then I wish someone would go back and do just what the other guy did but broke into at least 3 categories:
1. Real World
2. Games
3. Synthetic

Then we could get a better idea of what the Benchmarks results are really showing.