Ah huh, and how does that makes me an idiot? I seen chips cheaper than fx60 beat him while they'r overclocked to sky-highth, and still, it's just a smithfield core which is a prescott, it comes with its pluses and minuses.
And just for the record, those 'benchmark' tests, if you look CAREFULY, says flat out, it's an OPEN bench, meaning that it will not function like that in real life due to the fact that the factor in such a benchmark are very diffrent than the conditions you'll get in a RL benchmark. [closed case, etc.. in open benchs the mobo isn't even inside a case, it also effects the resaults, but its just some of the diffrences]