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By ChronoReverse on 3/9/2006 5:38:17 PM , Rating: 2
So that makes it... still a quad core chip. Your point?

In any case, each pair talks to each other even better than with a point-to-point connect. Futhermore, our very own Anandtech has shown that the benefits from the AMD solution (while theoretically much better) don't seem to (currently) translate to measureable performance boosts (on the desktop level).

Which, frankly, isn't surprising on the desktop level. How many tasks can you think of would use multiple cores with huge inter-thread communications? On server systems definitely, on desktops not so much.

Don't get me wrong, I like AMD, all of my machines are either AthlonXPs or Athlon64s. My last Intel CPU was a Pentium 3.

But if Intel has the better CPU in 2007 (my next upgrade time) with a price/performance better than AMD, there is absolutely no reason I wouldn't buy it.

