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[j3pflynn]

wbmw - re: "Just look at their prices right now. It's a rip-off for an AMD X2 processor. Their 2GHz, 512K L2 cache X2 has a list price of $303. For only $13 more, you can get a Pentium D 950 with much better performance at a reasonable 95W TDP. And AMD has nothing that can touch the price/performance of the 940 and 930 (at $241 and $209, respectively). These are the mainstream parts where all the volume is, and AMD has nothing more than slow single core processors to fill the gap. In the mainstream pricing segment, Intel has performance and price/performance already won."

Who do you think you're fooling? Yes, the 950 beats X2 3800 in some benchmarks, but the opposite is true as well. Much better performance? Hardly. The 950 costs about $50 more at newegg. And even Tom's(hardly a great AMD friend) interactive CPU system says AMD is the better value:

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html?modelx=33&model1=237&chart=118&model2=320