Athlon X2 3800+ Review

[Asus]

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Not only are there significant advantages in single threaded games but everything from encoding to the multitasking tests put the Athlon 64 X2 3800+ ahead of its Pentium D counterpart.
...there is only one benchmark where Intel ends up ahead. The Roxio VideoWave test in PCWorld's WorldBench 5 suite completes 6 seconds quicker on the Pentium D 830 than on the Athlon 64 X2 3800+. That is one loss out of 31 total benchmarks for the Athlon 64 X2 3800+.

Now if they make a DC 4000+ @ 2GHz and 1MB L2 then I might bite about the time the R520 comes out. And maybe it will give me an OC somewhere around 2.4 or 2.6GHz.

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[holydeadpenguins]

Ahahahaha, amd won in every benchmark except one.

 

[sychopike]

amd is pwning so much, intel had to b1tch out to steve jobs