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- Sep 29, 2004
Intel just charge too much for their i7's, and the Hyperthreading doesn't really give much of an advantage except under specific circumstances (kind of like the AMD FX chips). The i5 2500K will overclock up past stock i7 limits not worries making it much better value for the money.
The Thuban does have better all round performance than AMD newer FX's as its per core performance is better. If you can get something that will utilize all 8 threads on Bulldozer then you'll find that the FX-8120 is better however its currently rare to run into that situation. I've run both and found the Thuban to be faster with some things and the FX faster on others.
In actual usage I find the FX is just that tiny bit faster, though the difference is almost imperceptible. We're now at a point in time where performance is so far above anything we actually need that you'll find yourself happy irrespective of what you buy, whether its an Sandy Bridge, Thuban or Bulldozer.
The Thuban does have better all round performance than AMD newer FX's as its per core performance is better. If you can get something that will utilize all 8 threads on Bulldozer then you'll find that the FX-8120 is better however its currently rare to run into that situation. I've run both and found the Thuban to be faster with some things and the FX faster on others.
In actual usage I find the FX is just that tiny bit faster, though the difference is almost imperceptible. We're now at a point in time where performance is so far above anything we actually need that you'll find yourself happy irrespective of what you buy, whether its an Sandy Bridge, Thuban or Bulldozer.