Another reason to go with AMD

[Xocyll]

Wow.. I don't see how you can say that. The Core 2 Duo is blowing away the top
of the line AMD in benchmarks.

Since when are benchmarks games?

It's premature to call it a win for gaming until it's actually used (and
performs better) in actual games, both new and old.

Wouldn't be the first time something benchmarked great and fell down in
actual use.

Xocyll

 

[kony]

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 05:07:38 +1000, "Rod Speed"

Irrelevant to what is best value for gaming.

You are horribly confused, paying more <>value.
Since gamers are playing ok on CPUs costing less, your
"value" argument is nonsense.

I have no issue with using a Core 2 Duo for gaming, not at
all... it IS a good choice, for some people, but it is not
"good", "best" or anything of this sort until all the
applicable parameters are considered, not just "who has
highest performance level regardless of cost, regardless of
where the bottleneck was, or if that bottleneck was even
relevant to the user's needs".

One thing is for certain, "value" it is not. There are now
several CPUs under $100 that can provide acceptible
framerates. Let Core 2 Duo completely replace the older
CPUs and ramp up in speed and THEN it will be better
positioned as a value choice too.

 

[Rod Speed]

You are horribly confused,

We'll see...

paying more <> value.

Pity no one ever said it was.

Since gamers are playing ok on CPUs costing
less, your "value" argument is nonsense.

Nope, most obviously when it plays better on the better system.

I have no issue with using a Core 2 Duo for gaming,
not at all... it IS a good choice, for some people, but
it is not "good", "best" or anything of this sort until all
the applicable parameters are considered, not just
"who has highest performance level regardless of cost,
regardless of where the bottleneck was, or if that
bottleneck was even relevant to the user's needs".

Pity no one ever said anything about either.

One thing is for certain, "value" it is not.

Pity I never ever said that it was.

I JUST said that your stupid pig ignorant claim that

is just plain wrong.

There are now several CPUs under $100
that can provide acceptible framerates.

Irrelevant to your stupid pig ignorant claim that

Let Core 2 Duo completely replace the older
CPUs and ramp up in speed and THEN it will
be better positioned as a value choice too.

Irrelevant to your stupid pig ignorant claim that

 

[Andrew]

Since when are benchmarks games?

It's premature to call it a win for gaming until it's actually used (and
performs better) in actual games, both new and old.

It does outperform AMD in actual games. Games can be used for
benchmarking as well as synthetic programs.