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Ah, regarding the gaming benchmarks: Those are highly tuned to specific hardware, with lots of optimization, compiler tweaks etc. It is not unusual that they have issues with different hardware, no matter how performing it is. That's a matter of time and market penetration of AMDs processors. It's also the same reason that consoles with relative low power AMD hardware can outperform PCs with much higher specs. It's all about optimization.

Nobody said this about Conroe. Totally new architecture and it just came in and wrecked it. There's no way games could have been optimized specifically for Conroe because the arch was a radical departure from the P4/Netburst products that Intel had been fielding for half a decade, and of course it was not Athlon-based either.