no use for fanboys either AMD side or Intel side to keep bragging of their platform superiority, what matters now is this:

-Intel dont mind to "force" user to upgrade the entire mobo+cpu if they wanna get sandy bridge, as there are entirely no competition from AMD, and ppl willing to buy sandy bridge. And Intel is making a huge profit from cpu and mobo(chipset) the same time, see the 1 bird kill 2 stone analogy? No point for intel to keep the same platform upgradability from Clarkdale to Sandy bridge, if u stand on Intel's ground, u will make the same move too.

-AMD are forced to lower their profit margin, AGAIN, history repeating itself. But good for budget users, cheap quad core Phenom X4 available under RM250 very soon

-AMD Bulldozer optimistically at best only match on Sandy bridge and not the Ivy Bridge@22nm. Even if AMD released Bulldozer as early as mid of this year(which I highly doubt ), Bulldozer will be bulldozed away by Ivy Bridge 6months later.

-CPU technology advancement is not as great as it was used to be, thnx to AMD lacked of competition. which i hate it very much.

This post has been edited by techmostwanted: Jan 7 2011, 12:17 AM

............... Thats different market segment!

Phenom X6 nothing really impressive actually, just additional two cores. thats it, if u didn use any heavily threaded apps. it is best to use X4 or even X2.

price cut wont be happening overnight, it will happen only when AMD's inventory piling up in the warehouse and there are no demand for their stuff.

I do agree on AMD phenom II x6 performance, it is power hungry and the arch already passed its 2nd year birthday which is inferior to Intel's old Core2Duo arch. the price however, AMD couldnt afford to lower that much as it is an expensive piece of silicon to produce, they are mainly targetting X6 for enterprise and AMD users who prefer to upgrade their CPU instead of a whole platform which saves some $ in some sense.