Well how do you explain I7 gets obliterated in many gaming benchmarks on CF configurations? Hm, how is i5 faster then when it is inferior? BRIBE
http://www.modreactor.com/english/Reviews/Test-ATI-HD-4890-1GB-CrossFire-AMD-Phenom-II-955-BE-vs-Intel-Core-i7-920.html
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/pii_965/10.html
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3533&p=8
In our previous testing with the 8.12 drivers, the Intel systems would generate minimum frame rates in the 23~24fps range on a couple of runs and then jump to their current results or higher on the others. Guess what, we still noticed that problem with the 9.3 drivers. However, the hitch and pausing we encountered previously was mitigated somewhat in our new tests. It was only in intensive ground scenes with numerous units that we really noticed the problem and it was primarily with the Q9550 platform. Both Phenom II systems had extremely stable frame rates along with very fluid game play during the heavy action sequences.
What about the game play experience? As we mentioned earlier, the Intel Q9550 platform had some problems with minimum frame rates throughout testing - not just in the benchmarks, but also during game play in various levels and online. The i7 platform would behave in the same manner at times, but the game play experience with it has certainly improved with the 9.3 driver set and BIOS upgrades. The problem is very likely driver related in some manner (as the man who helped to start DirectX once put it, "the drivers are always broken"), but nevertheless this continues to be a problem on the two Intel platforms.
I fail to see how the I5 can be better than those two then. Oh, but I do: B R I B E
Slig0
The madman calling others mad. Love how you selectively handpicked the few instances where the 965 shined, you must have took quite some pains to do so.
It's very sad that you are criticizing AMD when you have an exceptional AMD rig yourself. Actually the Phenom 955 is at $199 (even cheaper than that I think) and it's only 200 MHz slower and still pretty much performs identical to the Phenom 965. Please don't be so pessimistic about AMD. In fact the core i5 doesn't even have hyper-threading support like the core i7 does. Also you can still use DDR2 RAM with the Phenom 2 AM3 CPUs because the AM3 CPUs have a DDR2 integrated memory controller and a DDR3 integrated memory controller. UltimateGamer95
The fact that I own a AMD processor does not require me to oblige to them. I don't allow my judgment to be clouded by the brand of the product, but the product itself. Why should I narrow myself so? Wouldn't it be more logical to NOT choose sides, but instead take whatever's the best from both worlds?
On you comment about hyperthreading, the core i5 may not have that, but it does have turbo, which noticeably makes up the ground it lost in hyperthreading. This can be seen in numerous benchmarks, as the core i5 is only a hair away from its brother's speed.
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