Soleron on 17 March 2009
Grampy said:
Actually you have that choice for your gaming but I use computers for serious work. The difference at Newegg between the best Phenom and the Core i7 920 is $ 89US. There aren't many things you can do on a computer for $89 that give you double the performance. And it is usually outperformed by Core 2 Duos that actually cost less. The Phenom just isn't that great a chip unfortunately. It sometimes underperforms the AMD 64x2. |
False. Phenoms are competing well with the quads at their respective price points. Show me a single benchmark where a Phenom II quad is outperformed by an Athlon 64 X2. You're thinking of the original Phenom.
