CrazySaint
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The reason Intel's flagship still spanks AMD's is that until Monday AMD hadn't released a single processor in about 3 months. At the time the 2100+ came out, it was the performance leader, albeit by a small margin. Since that time, Intel has increased clockspeed by 533MHz on the Northwood core, increased clockspeed by 333MHz over the fastest Willie core, upped the FSB speed by 133MHz, and released several new chipsets. No way in hell a single 66MHz speed increase by AMD was gonna overcome all that. The TBred's only hope of re-capturing the enthusiast market was if it OC'd as well as we were hoping - it doesn't. So unless AMD significantly improves its process and OC goes up soon, Intel will hold the speed crown virtually unchallenged at least until the Barton comes out. Whether the Barton's 512k cache will be enough for AMD to catch back up again is anybody's guess, but right now even that looks doubtful unless the TBred and Barton somehow manage to scale really well. So I hate to say it, but right now, it looks like Intel may well hold the performance crown at least until the Hammer comes out.