Caches Cripple Phenom

[cosmogenesis]

I have read the articles on Phenom and what strikes me is that native quad core yes but the cache sizes are a small company offering. Intel offer 4MB per core whilst AMD offer L2+L3 combines solution which I am sure is slower and makes for a less responsive machine.

THG you the new AMD overclocking tool to get 3Ghz on air stable which gives some improvement.

On the pricing of phenom, they are quad core and not everything is games related and hence they are not badly priced are they ?

 

[cosmogenesis]

No come on Vir, the fact that Phenom can be dropped into many a current motherboard is more than Intel are doing. AMD are not being silly here. They are native quad core and a relatively cheap upgrade for that.

 

[cosmogenesis]

Yes well quad core must be better at somethings than dual core regardless of games performance alone. background tasks, a more responsive machine and the literally millions of business machines with power management requirements and all those open applications etc probably figure higher on the profits list then games playing and video encoding.

Maybe quad core will be better for compiling code 2

 

[cosmogenesis]

Phenom is competetive with the 6600 but you get 4 cores so when software takes advantage of it the phenoms will out perform 6600. I am starting to see that benchmarks cannot account for anything to do with quad cores as the entire computing paradigm is different now surely ?