> Sigh...still cant get over how shockingly bad the new AMD chips are.
They are bad only in comparison to Intel's i7, which is definitely at the forefront of increasingly irrelevant x86 performance improvements. Bulldozer is currently no better than AMD's last generation either, so you could say they are bad relative to those also, but I tend to think that the Bulldozer architecture has already proven that it has alot more headroom than the previous generation of AMDs processors did based on the overclocking that has been already achieved.
All that we're getting with these faster processors is adding a few more 9s to the end of the percentage of users for whom the speed of x86 processors is fast enough for everything they do, i.e. last generation was 99.9%, now we're at 99.99%. Yawn.
People who like to play 3d arcade games from the 2000's emulated in MAME still find x86 performance relevant, but even for them, it's only a handful of games that don't already play at 100%.
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