i'm not bashing on you, i'm stating facts
i've owned an amd 3500+ opteron 146, 3800x2 3800x2 (socket AM2) and an fx-62 that i ran at 3.0ghz
and it wasnt faster than my old stock e6600
i know you won't notice real life difference in most situations, but i'm simply stating, that there is no dual core AMD cpu that'll keep up w/ an e6600
so don't think i'm speaking through graphs, because i've owned TONS of hardware just in the past 2 years.. would you like me to list??
cpu's:
AMD - socket 939: 3500+ 3800x2 socket AM2: 3800x2, fx-62
Intel - E6600, Q6600
motherboards: Abit kn8-SLi, ECS Nforce 4M-A, Asus P5N32E-SLi Plus
Video cards: 2x 6800gs, 2x 6800 vanilla, 2x 7900gt, 7300gt, x1950pro, x1900xt, x1950xtx, x300, 8800gts 640mb, 8600gts 512mb, 8800gtx, 2900pro.. i'm sure there's more but at this point i dont care
i've tried overclocking other cpu's such as, my friends e6700, my other friends 4200+, a 1.2ghz celeron, 3.0ghz pentium 4's
so don't tell me i havent tried hardware and only rely on charts.. because i have owned my share of hardware, in an incredibly short amount of time
if you really wanna get down to the nitty gritty
what cpu are you running... i'll run the same exact program as you (cpu intensive of course), and turn off 2 cores, and we'll see who takes the cake.. this'll make me pretty much exactly like an e6600.. i can even ask a few other people here on the forums to run some tests just to prove my point
again, i am in no way trying to call you dumb, or spit in your face.... i am just simply stating the truth.. there isnt very many applications that amd does outdo core2duo.. and the only applications that do, see to be memory bandwidth tests...