[Kal-EL]

Question is, Intel or AMD, ba bong bong bong!

[2chesapeakes]

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I have always felt a 4870x2 should have been submitted as 2 x4870 and it made no sense to me that if you ran a 4870x2 and a 4870 for tri-fire it had to be submitted as 2x4870x2's. HWBOT should fix what they have in the rules before making changes like this. I may have misunderstood what the global points was for but I thought it was to show the most powerful systems for a given benchmark.
The 2D apps submissions shouuld also be reviewed if they make this change. Try getting to the top of Wprime 1024 without having access to a $100,000 dollar set up at your disposal to play with. If there were more multithreaded 2D apps at the bot I am sure we would be having the same complaints about the way the cpu's are listed 1core vs 2 core vs 4core and so on.

As we all know this is no dofferent than anything else in life. The more you spend to build or buy something the better performance you will get out of it.

just my .02

[Neuromancer]

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

Question is, Intel or AMD, ba bong bong bong!

WEll that depends. On da bong I take AMD. More mega hurts never hurts. Considering my 900 MHz (now) quad core AMD plays games, videos, IM and surfs at the same time, I take AMD.

For bointing I take i7. Which gets run once in while. It's a fun rig, and SO much faster than socket 775. I would not use it as a 24/7 setup though.