Dell's First XPS System With AMD Phenom II Tested

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 5, 2009 @07:16AM from the shakeup-in-round-rock dept.

MojoKid writes "Dell's new XPS 625 is their latest AMD-based creation, and is the first out of the Dell labs using the relatively new Phenom II processor. Initial reviews of AMD's new chip have been favorable, as this new quad-core processor is slated to deliver roughly the same performance as Intel's quad-core Core 2 processors at more tolerable price points. While it's pretty clear that the Phenom II can't quite crack Core i7 levels of performance in most usage scenarios, the new Dell rig does show more than respectfully in a myriad of benchmarks. This was obviously a solid design win for AMD with their latest CPU."

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Frist psot? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-05 07:20 · Score: -1, Troll

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Re:Not really by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-05 11:35 · Score: -1, Troll

So what?!.. if we don't buy you frickin i7 we are going to lose some IQ points or what.
Talk about when people pretend to be smarter based on the highest specs for a PC part they can buy. I guess that all you FLOPS are dedicated to some form of messenger and pr0n.. yeah! you fap faster with i7! I wanna be like you.. do you sell some PDF e-book with your recipe to success on any random word-made website? huh? do you?
Just wait for all Intel fanboys when v-pro comes and OWN all their hard drive contents. Intel looks more like MS plus fanboys equal or worse than the Apple ones.