Originally posted by: Duvie
List me your motherboards you chose? I spec'd one out and i didn't see it being 75 bucks for the whole platform....The Q9400 was about equal to the PhII 940...like 5 bucks more...the 920 was 40 bucks cheaper....
I basically got a wash with the motherboards....so sorry I dont see the 75 bucks....
and again that was with a Q9400...
A Q8300 is only 5 bucks more then the 920.....
It is sooo damn close it is just a matter of preference....is 25-75 worth 10% more if they clocked the same with their overclock? 15+% more if the quadcore INtel hits 4ghz on air....AMD or INtel...cannot go wrong either way....
I dont see going to AMD until they have the superior architecture or a screaming deal that I can OC the chip to outdo anything INtel has to offer....unfortunately that doesn't seem to be true on either fronts...If the AMD Oc'd routinely to 4ghz plus or about 10% higher then the Yorkfield with the savings I would do it....That doesn't seem to be the case either.
I went A64 when it was clear the A64 was superior to the prescott....I stayed X2 when it was clear intel's dual prescott core heaters were a dud....Before that I was Intel P4 northwood when it was clearly better then the XP Bartons....Now I am back with INtel and Core 2 architure.
Fanboys scream price when performance comparatively isn't there. I dont see the big price difference to go with the lower performer...
Why bother, since no matter what I post you are going to pick it apart anyhow. The point I have been making is the best overall quad core value is the Ph II 920 right now no matter how you slice it when compared to Intel CPU' s in the
exact same price range which excludes the Q9400 entirely. The Ph II is just a hair slower than the Q9400, but is $35 cheaper.
For people on a budget there is no better choice. (Even if you could find a comparable motherboard for less than $100 that has firewire and will over clock. The AM2+ mobo I chose when comparing
is this one to any Intel board at the same price level lacked firewire and would not support up to 16 GB of RAM.) To get a equivalent board from Intel I finally found one at around the $100 mark. That is a $55 difference in price between platforms when comparing it to the Q9400. (The price difference between CPU's themselves was even higher when I made those post the other day.)
You call me a fanboy (Don't let my sig confuse you, I have been recommending Intel for some time now. Don't believe me, then research my post history!) yet you keep saying nothing but Intel will do and ignoring when I said equivalent features at the same price. There is no point in name calling when I was being nothing but civil to you. You have been coming across as the fanboy in this thread, not I.