Quote Originally Posted by Shadov View Post
Quite frankly speaking I'm not impressed by the results.

That way I will just stick to the (IMHO) best price / performance AMD Phenom II 955 and stay with socket AM3. When AMD brings Istanbul to desktop then ill consider an CPU upgrade.
i5-750 is damn screaming fast for its price ($196 expected). Having reasonable performance advantage over PII-955 and also lesser power consumption it will give PII-955 to run for its money.
Here is direct comparision i5-750 vs PII-955:
http://diy.pconline.com.cn/cpu/revie...7/1702311.html

On a side note I wonder how Intel will screw everyone with all these new sockets. Its going to be amusing to watch all these "upgrades", where users find their motherboards incompatible.
I doubt it will screw anyone since it was already known for ages. BTW, AMD also changes sockets sometimes.