Maybe you heard that from fudzilla or The inquire
huh.
Yes, it might not be reliable. I don't know if it is. And I even said that it's just a rumor so far.
But even so, it could be true. We don't know.
I'm %100 sure that Nehalem is going to be a lot faster than.
Well, we'll see when it comes out.
The difference between Phenom 65nm and Phenom 45nm is just like the difference between 65nm C2Q and 45nm C2Q. The current 65nm C2Q are better and have better performance per watt than 65nm phenom.
I wouldn't be so sure about that, now that Phenom is clocking past 3GHZ. It does scale well with clock speeds.
While Nehalem is going to be based on a new architecture and it supposed to be faster than 45nm C2Q which is already better than 45nm Phenom (I think).
Newer architectures may not always equal better performance.
All we've got now is speculation as to how they're going to perform.
In addition, Intel nowadays have great products for budget market that can compete with AMD even if you don't overclock. Just look at E2180 and E7200
they are great product for the price !
Yeah, and so are X2's, and the X3's, and the low power Phenom's, and even Sempron LE's.
I also think that Via is starting to really get things together with their new Isaiah architecture.
And Q6600 is one of greatest quad core for the price. Q6600 is cheaper and consume less power than Phenom 9850. Q6600 has better performance per $ and better performance per watt. And I'm not attacking AMD because what I said is a fact
Well I disagree that it is.
If you're talking about media encoding, Q6600 will win.
But, that's not something I do a lot of. I play games, and Phenom does really well there.
Even when I do encode media, I'm far less worried about its speed than in games.
A lot of the time, the 9850 BE will win in game benchmarks when clocked over 3GHZ (which can be done on 9850's with little or sometimes no voltage increase) compared to a Q6600 at the same clock speeds.
Now, even if the Q6600 does get a higher overall frame rate, there are a lot of people (high-end reviewers) who say that Phenom systems seem
smoother
I'm not sure if it's something that is quantifiable. And there are some discussions on XtremeSystems over it, if you want to check on it.