Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Petz]

it will take a 4Ghz Prescott or better to clearly beat the FX-53 on 940

Depends what benchmarks you are using. If you follow tomshardware.com's selections, 3.4E looks better than 3400+ on 20 of 34 benchmarks, though it loses by the same margin to an FX-53.

Of course, over half the 34 (non synthetic) benchmarks are video/audio encoding/decoding.

This will backfire bigtime
1) When these apps start to get ported to 64-bits
2) On Dothan architecture
3) When Athlon 64 gets SSE3 (and Dothan doesn't, funny)

But then, Intel won't be talking about performance then.

Petz