Quote Originally Posted by tajoh111 View Post
You can't be serious. AMD gets the benefit of the doubt more than any other company out there on these forums and most in general. A product like Sandybridge E, Ivy bridge E/ivy-bridge or even Haswell were given a lukewarm to negative reception by forum goers. So it shouldn't come to a surprise when people hammer on a up clocked vishera with 4 to 5 times the price and its the same silicon as their cheap processors.

If AMD was judged by the same standards as Intel processors, nothing positive could be said from a technological stand point.

A maxed clocked Nehalem is still faster than a max clocked Vishera. And nehalem was released in 2008.

People just expect a lot from technology nowadays and they are hard to impress.

When AMD was king, everyone liked them. Intel fanboys included. The problem as, particular as a pure CPU part, they haven't released anything exciting for the enthusiast in years(this forum) from a performance standpoint. It also didn't help that JF-AMD lied to people about bulldozer and got people to commit to the platform by buying the motherboard instead of going Intel by hyping up bulldozer.
See it really depends on what you are doing as well. Take your max clocked nahalem and AMD chip toss both of them into a heavily multithreaded enviroment and the nahalem struggles, just like gen 2 i7's. Games are slowly moving that way and with the new consoles being AMD based I would not be surprised if multithreading got substantially better along with a bit more biased.