Quote Originally Posted by Tom128 View Post
Geez guys c'mon. I'm pretty sure the guy was referring to the entire AMD portfolio being compressed from above, forcing everything else to fall in line, not just the AII X4's.

Let's face it the i5 750 is a dangerous chip for AMD to compete with. Only AMD's top chips can even touch it, and to do so requires a healthy clock advantage. Throw on the fact that the 750 can hit 4Ghz pretty easy and you have to admit it is a better quad for the price (platform is another debate). I don't think any of the other new chips have any real effect on AMD's situation, they are just like the i7's are, but the i5 750 is a heck of a chip for AMD to deal with.
Only "problem" is that the i5 750 is a 3,2GHz CPU quite often I would assume. So one can not entirely use the results and think that you'll get 50% more performance if you clock it to 4GHz.

Would be nice to see some reviews comparing OC'd CPUs like a 3,8-4,0GHz PhII 955/965 to an i5 750 at similar clocks. Would have been nice to see what clocks the CPU was running during the different tasks in the other tests.

Edit: But I do agree, the i5 750 is a bit too good for AMDs current line up. I hope we'll see some improvements with C3, both X4 and X6.