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Epic CPU battles of history: Athlon FX-55, Pentium 4 EE, FX-8150 si Core i7 3960X

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Jaskanwar Singh
Jaskanwar Singh Original post #1
Jan 3, 2012 at 10:09 AM
Epic CPU battles of history: Athlon FX-55, Pentium 4 EE, FX-8150 si Core i7 3960X | lab501

*lab501.ro/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/wp32_cpc.jpg
(less seconds - better)

what can get more disasterous than this :p
thetechfreak
thetechfreak #2
Jan 3, 2012 at 11:22 AM
The result has made me :facepalm:

what happened to AMD?
ranjitsd
ranjitsd #3
Jan 3, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Maybe intel threw banana on amd floor
d6bmg
d6bmg #4
Jan 3, 2012 at 1:03 PM
Epic sh!t. Should go to the history of computers. :p
Skud
Skud #5
Jan 3, 2012 at 2:33 PM
Why the Core i7 was tested with 2 threads on?

*lab501.ro/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/crysis.jpg


This graph tells me, the world hasn't move much. ;)
skeletor
skeletor #7
Jan 4, 2012 at 2:45 AM
Athlon 64 FX was a ****in' hero.

Huge kick in the butt for Intel. Intel idiots were only pursuing *gigahertz* with Netburst. (Pentium 4)

Too bad AMD can't give that *IPC* lesson to themselves now.
$$Lionking$$
$$Lionking$$ #8
Jan 6, 2012 at 4:15 AM
ico - i think u mean NETBUST!!!!!! :p :p ;)
comp@ddict
comp@ddict #9
Jan 6, 2012 at 9:02 AM
Can't believe P4 won with it's Net BUST.
d6bmg
d6bmg #10
Jan 6, 2012 at 2:58 PM
But think about the fact.. who the F plays any gaming by only enabling 2 cores & disabling HT?