Quote Originally Posted by Miss Banana View Post
This was your rather poor defensive post, in which you make excuses.
Kyle once hated intel too, so it's ok for him to make crapreviews about AMD?
Not really Donnie...
But you almost got it! savantu was there in the forums when Kyle defending not only the poor performing Barcelona, 4 X 4 and did an assassination of Conroe that would have made Chris Tom and Rahul Sood proud

I'm not saying you don't have a point talking un matched systems. The aim of is to match as many common parts as possible for a reference Point. If i7 uses 3 channels, then you can do apples to apples but that's AMD's fault for ot using Tri-channel, just like X3 vs C2D. He could have only used 2GB of DDR2 on the Intel C2D System. But I linked you to me calling it a crappy review. Why not just ask me why I said Crappy and my answer would have been because he's Not Tech Report, Lostcuits and even Anand who did match the system as much as possible.

Another Review. Firingquad, get ready to bash them as well. My buddie Duploxx and Rammsteiner love to point out my trashing AMD for sticking it to their customers when they did rule the market. See Duploxx's comments? Yet, he and others still keep bringing it up as if it was a different reality.
He asks why do I keep bringing it up, was I depressed or some other wise crack, I say double standards suck!

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/...0_performance/

Let’s face it, Phenom didn’t cut it for most of the hardcore AMD crowd at launch. The Phenom 9850 Black Edition finally became somewhat tempting for these users as a result of the latest price cuts last summer. But nothing AMD has offered lately has dominated the market like the legendary 3500+ (I still own one) and X2 3800+ did for the budget-minded enthusiast a few years ago.

Before we get AMD enthusiasts hopes up too much though, a little reality check: Phenom II is not a Core i7-killer. Core i7 is still the world’s fastest CPU.

But AMD isn’t going after the bleeding edge sacrifice-your-first-born-child-in-order-to-afford-it crowd anymore. Instead they’re focusing on the value-conscious consumer who wants good performance, but at the same time also wants something affordable. Think of the guy who buys the Camaro SS instead of the Corvette, or the BMW 135i instead of the M3. You get the idea, ~80-90% of the performance of the high-end model, but at a significantly lower price.
AMD isn't going after the "sacrifice-your-first-born-child-in-order-to-afford-it crowd" anymore because they don't have anything to fit in that category! If they did you can bet your sweet @$$ the price would reflect it. Again, 3500+ and 3800+ is presented as "budget-minded enthusiast". So now i7 940 is a lower priced "budget-minded enthusiast" version then, right? FS is not the only site to make these kinds of comments.
Yes, motherboards and RAM wasn't cheap back then.

It is not what's said, it is HOW it is said.