Now I hope we can all have a constructive discussion here and lets out our fanboyism aside, I have been an AMD person pretty much all my life and now I have Intel because even though slightly more expensive yields great performance per dollar for me, and while it has been a tough year for AMD they have finally produced what i said they should have done a while ago an Integrated 3D graphics unit with power (4800 series).
The other thing that is also very interesting is that now we are getting to the point where GPU are the bottlenecks in systems, and while one can make an argument that when you scale back to 640 X 480 the Core i7 beats the Phenom NO ONE plays at this resolution, what people wants is high performance and nice looking Games this is where i believe the Phenom 2 beats Intel NOT only in performance but where i live the Intel x58 is so (almost illegally) expensive if Intel don't do something soon it will be Hello Phenom 2.
The fact of the matter is this and NO ONE can deny this the Phenom 2 and Motherboard are cheaper and yield great performance, the Core i7 is just too expensive for any (and some time less) performance.
With the release of Phenom 2 Intel will sharply reduce the x58 prce i would expect.
maybe I am just rambling, what do you guys think
PS// NO FANBOYs please lets have an intelligent debate
The other thing that is also very interesting is that now we are getting to the point where GPU are the bottlenecks in systems, and while one can make an argument that when you scale back to 640 X 480 the Core i7 beats the Phenom NO ONE plays at this resolution, what people wants is high performance and nice looking Games this is where i believe the Phenom 2 beats Intel NOT only in performance but where i live the Intel x58 is so (almost illegally) expensive if Intel don't do something soon it will be Hello Phenom 2.
The fact of the matter is this and NO ONE can deny this the Phenom 2 and Motherboard are cheaper and yield great performance, the Core i7 is just too expensive for any (and some time less) performance.
With the release of Phenom 2 Intel will sharply reduce the x58 prce i would expect.
maybe I am just rambling, what do you guys think
PS// NO FANBOYs please lets have an intelligent debate