Core i7-970 "cheapest" Intel six-core on shelves around the world

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But PII X6 @ 4GHz is not as good as i7 quad core at same clock in majority of cases



I wonder why people compare AMD 6 core to intel 6 core ?

why compare them if you clock them the same? do the test again @ stock... if you want to oc anyhow you can just order a T1055 and oc it.

We can not compare amd and intel on this 6 cores categuory.
Even if amd has a 6 cores, intel is far away with the HT technology.
The amd 6cores can be compare to the i7 920 ( HT on equivalent to 6 physicals cores on perf ).
We have to wait the amd HT to compare the same cores.

then you will have to wait for a very very long time, perhaps never
it doesn't matter if you make a design for ht or more cores, logic is much bigger on a core with HT then without, this is a development choice.
If current AMD would have the same IPC/ghz Intel would be in very bad shape....with or without HT. But we know k10 has lower IPC so it will be depending on BD, sandy is just again an enhancement, not a real leap forward, this was done with Nehalem.