Soleron said:
Well, the reviews have varied from same performance to roughly 10% less - I think some were using engineering samples with the wrong HT and turbo settings compared to retail chips. I'd wait for reliable reviews on this before committing. We don't know how the pricing situation will look - will the CPUs and motherboards launch at a premium compared to 1000-unit cost? Will AMD cut prices on launch day? So my advice is to wait until a few days after launch before choosing. Quad-core could be overkill for your needs. If all you plan to do is game you could get equal performance with a fast dual- or tri-core. And finally we don't know how Win7/DX11 will change the benchmark picture. |
But the low-end Core i5 is about $190, that is CHEAP for the performance. Even with HT and turbo settings wrong.
