Gear for Geeks AMD’s Phenom – For suckers only

Posted by admin on November 19, 2007 under New Hardware | Be the First to Comment

And we thought our stance outlined in yesterday’s post was going to controversial!

Gear for Geek’s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes lets loose:

“I’ve come to the conclusion that you’d have to be a sucker to be an early adopter of AMD’s new quad-core line.”

“if you’re gaming, overall performance sucks.”

“instead of giving your money to AMD, you instead buy an Intel Q6600 (Intel’s smallest quad-core) you see an overall performance gain of 13.5% against the Phenom 9600 and an 18% performance gain compared to the Phenom 9500″

“it’s a shame that the hardware isn’t really all that impressive”

” AMD have put time, effort and truck loads of dollars into developing a quad-core processor that really isn’t that good”

“AMD just can’t deliver the power or price point to be able to compete against Intel on anything but the cheapest silicon”

So much for our controversial stand……