AMD Phenom

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If an endorsement of a product isn't advice, I don't know what is. And that's exactly what you do when you say:

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IMO, that's bad advice, because you don't get more power to the pound, or bang for the buck.

 

Okay fine .. i am not arguing anymore

But i know you can get a Phenom 9900 a lot cheaper than a Intel Q6600 (very close benchmarks) which is of roughly the same RRP therefore a fair comparison.

An endorsement isn't really same as advice, and it wasn't an endorsement either, in fact the first post was a overall question based on the facts found above whilst looking a price lists and benchmarks!

 

The problem is Andi that the potential power of the Q6600 blows the Phenom out of the water. It's already been commented upon that overclocking intel's baby can produce results of over 4Ghz on air cooling - and that just can't be touched by AMD.

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Personally i would'nt buy one because of power consumption efficiency issues, I was just saying there not as bad as people make out.
Expect there prices will fall if there not selling aswell, as your starting to see.

 

There seems to be a lot of low end multiprocessor servers based around AMD. Here overclockings not really relevant. I assume they exist because Andi may be correct in that AMD might be competative at some spec/price point, eg their Opteron offerings are cheaper than the Intel Xeons ?

Though I'm not really upto speed on the current offerings, It does appear the dual and quad core desktop offerings from Intel are the current favourite and I've not heard anything good about Phenom's.