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danny e. wrote:It's a little sad that the 3.2GHz Phenom II 955 is still a ways behind the i7-920 at 2.66 GHz.
.. a complete reversal from a couple years ago.
morphine wrote:danny e. wrote:It's a little sad that the 3.2GHz Phenom II 955 is still a ways behind the i7-920 at 2.66 GHz.
.. a complete reversal from a couple years ago.
Depends on what you're doing. If we're talking about gaming, the Phenom II 955 is quite a match. It gets beaten in media encoding, etc, however, though.
shaq_mobile wrote:955 advantages
cheaper ram
cheaper motherboard
unlocked multi
cheaper cpu
Similarities
Sockets have a future
Both are good in the high-performance-"value" compared to 940/965/975
940 advantages
kewler ram kits
(the usual intel advantages like faster encoding etc)
you get an i7 cookie
more power efficient(?)
more feature loaded mobo's
danny e. wrote:yeah.. it's decent in gaming. I dont think the processors matter so much anymore for gaming.. it's all about the video card.
gosh wrote:...
Welch wrote:Awesome listing there Danny... only one question, is it possible to update the prices *which would inadvertently also change the price/ratio score i know*
Thanks
mghong wrote:ub3r wrote:Out of the intel range. I forgot to mention sorry.
But yes, you are right, AMD offers better performance per dollar ATM.
How about ATom processor ?
Nec_V20 wrote:mghong wrote:ub3r wrote:Out of the intel range. I forgot to mention sorry.
But yes, you are right, AMD offers better performance per dollar ATM.
How about ATom processor ?
If you include the Atom processor then you have to include an abacus.
sandralambert wrote:The way to rationalize more expensive CPUs to yourself is to count the cost of the motherboard and RAM. This may push the optimum to the middle of the processor series, but the bleeding edge top-end is never a good value.