> Well... I am not so sure...

> > But facts are Phenom is lagging behind Intel chips on all fronts.
> > Instructions per clock, clock speed, and power consumption.  This
> > leaves them without anything to compete with.  The only defense
> > they'll have is to drop prices more.

> Let me tell you about my story...

> I was very skeptical of AMD. I remember I bought an AMD about five
> years ago and it was not a good experience. About four months ago my
> brother had a garage sale and he wanted to sell his new computer to
> me. I asked what model is it, and he said AMD, etc, etc.

> When he said AMD I was truly skeptical and said sure because he was my
> brother. I thought the AMD box was slow (based on past experience) and
> decided to use it as a simulation server. Something that I could leave
> running.

> Well.... Something funny happened. My main work station which happens
> to be a dual core, and the other servers are dual core were 15% slower
> in flat out simulation speed than the AMD. I was t'eed off because the
> AMD was cheaper and yet faster. 15% to most folks is not much. For me
> it is a world of diference. One simulation run takes 10 hours on a
> dual core on the AMD it was under 9 hours. Multiply that by about 100
> simulations and you are saving days...

> So in the end I don't really care about more MGHz, or what have you. I
> just care about real life processing power.

> Christian Gross