"Kewlx25 wrote :
So even though the i7 may be slightly faster, the AMD does it with less heat/power and won't cost $1,000"
Slightly faster? Try 30% faster in Multithreaded apps.
I know at the top of my post I said the i7 is faster in highly threaded apps, but the bottom of my post I was talking about games. In games, the i7 doesn't have a whole lot of lead on AMD and some of that is because many times a game will get two threads schedule on the same core but different virtual cpus which obviously is less advantageous than scheduling two heavy threads on two different cores.
My A.D.D. doesn't help my writing, sorry for any confusion.. :-|
On a side note, Bad Company 2 actually locks itself down to one thread per core, so my i7 only shows activity on 4 of the 8 reported cpus. I'm assuming they check for hyper-threading
edit: also I was comparing the 6 core AMD to the 4 core i7, so the distance between them is a bit less.