Results: Productivity
Productivity
The 29% loss in productivity is exactly why I chose the Core i5 last quarter. If you want to compete in the overall performance category, you need more than two cores. Unfortunately for our $650 PC, the situation only gets worse once we take overclocking into consideration.
We can't help but think that, in a marketplace where AMD was more competitive, Intel wouldn't dare wreck overclocking in the value-oriented space the way it currently does.