Phenom II 965 launched - 3.4GHz

[jefforange89]

Soleron said:

jefforange89 said:
And unfortunately, that only applies to 1% of people, according to Intel.

And the higher and higher the high end gets, the smaller and smaller the market for it will become. =

If you're in that 1%, then Intel is a good choice. It won't get you better game framerates than a GPU bought with that money, nbut you clearly have a professional design job in order to want to spend that much.

Just don't recommend it as "better" to your family, friends, etc. who will most likely be buying something with a CPU <$250 in which case AMD is better or at the very least equal value.

Even if you're in that 1%, AMD's still a great choice - I just spent over 1 000$ on a high-end AMD build, biut had I chosen to go the i7 route, it still would have costed me about 150$ more to get the cheapest x58 motherboard, the CPU, and the memory. =\