| mrstickball said: Can anyone care to explain why the i5-750 is better than a Phenom II X4 965 when Passmark.com rates the Phenom higher on its user benchmarks? Curious to understand why... |
Generally, "synthetic benchmark" is a euphamism for, "useless piece of crap."
Here's a graph comparing the two in Photoshop:
And in Excel:
And in WinRAR compression:
And finally, in Far Cry 2, one of the most CPU-bound games out there:
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Right now, the Phenom is like $180 on Newegg, while the i5-750 is $195. In case those real-world benchmarks aren't enough to persuade you, you'll also note that the i5-750 consumes much less power at both idle and load, so you'll easily make up that difference over time in your electric bills.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
