AMD, still chasing the clock speed dream. I somehow doubt this will come close to the single threaded performance of a similarly priced Intel chip. There is literally no point in AMD competing in the high end of CPUs, Intel just have way too many advantages.

APUs however...

You're late: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113347

Still won't make me buy a CPU from AMD. Intel all the way.

It is a share how today a AMD CPU running at 5Ghz can't hold a Intel CPU at 3Ghz in single clock performance... but when I remember around 2004 lol how the things changed.

220Watts?! WTF?!

This is just an overclocked 8350, isn't it?

I have a sneaking supiscion your i7 will destroy this chip. The only advantage the AMD chips ever had was in highly threaded applications, and I don't think the advantage was particularly noticeable.

In games the i7 will win out.

Also, you may want some water cooling

To be fair, Intel have always been a much bigger company. AMDs advantage back then was more to do with Intel completely messing up the P4 architecture than AMD having a particularly brilliant architecture. AMD were just there to take advantage.

With those chips I should have guessed, lol.

Your article is 40 days old.

Intel couldn't even touch AMD much less outperform them until 2006. And they didn't start outperforming AMD CPU's until 2008 with Intel Core 2.