I find it interesting that the usual rhetoric is "AMD is getting destroyed" when in fact the margin is actually hardly a massive gap. Even in that article I linked, the gap is frankly not worth mentioning despite the fact that the benchmark bars are rendered with a big gap. Go back and read a lot of comparison reviews and look at the numbers instead of the bars, and be surprised how little a deal it is. The truth is either platform is just fine and you should let things like which motherboard you like, what specials are out right now, and what your upgrade path is going to be dictate where you spend your money. There are dozens of other things to take into consideration then 4 more points on a gaping benchmark bar. The video card is far more important anyway.
The sad truth is everyone these days spends more time cherry picking then paying attention to more important factors. As I said, if you have two cars and one has a top speed of 190 and the other has a top speed of 180, is that seriously a big deal? They are both damn fast. That's when you start factoring other things in like cost, "interior", insurance costs, whatever. So much time is spent trying to crown a king that perspectives get lost. Sure maybe an x3 its a tad slower then the e7200 in those specific benchmarks at this time, but what if you can get a better motherboard cheaper or if you actually want to install four video cards at a later date? Don't waste time on the tiny numbers, keep the big picture in mind. I still say more cores are better futureproof, regardless of how fast the two cores are. Because that's what everyone is going to be optimizing for in the future. And the present difference is nominal, so why not?
Indeed, however I find it funny that just about every benchmark used nowadays I'll never use on my system, and I'm sure there are many in the same boat. I don't play any of those games, many of those programs I don't use, so if you think about it the benchmarks pretty much can never tell the whole story or at least don't help me at all with how I use my machine. Sure it's a rough glance that might be handy to gauge how a system might perform, but people need to remember that they spend more time in Windows then they do in a game or using only one single application. It's pretty ridiculous nowadays how people act regarding platform benchmarks. I really wish people would spend more time trying to prove the benefits of both platforms rather then trying to "crown a king" and spouting "if it's not as good as the king its utter crap." To get a good perspective on something, rather then spend a lot of time trying to disprove it, instead try to prove it's value. You never know, you could be surprised.
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