Originally Posted by
keithwalton
I look at these chips in hope that they are a significant upgrade to my 6! year old core 2 quad and the answer is no it performs about the same if not a bit slower!
Which is a bit of a problem for amd as most people these days will be upgrading from an existing system rather than buying there first pc and will be looking for a significant jump. Not so long ago even budget chips were a jump from any 3+ year old chip. But anyone that has a true quad (pre dozer) this is likely to be a downgrade.
Those that have existing dual core machines probably run a lot of single threaded apps (and there is a lot of those out there) and again this may end up being a downgrade as it's single thread performance is so laughable despite it's high clock speed.