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Old Feb 15, 2010, 06:56 PM   #18
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+1 Agreed - it's kinda like the saying for old muscle cars. "There's no replacement for displacement"
Yeah, except in the AMD case, the statement makes little to no sense because Intel had just as many real cores as they did, and Intels processor outperformed AMDs with Hyperthreading off...

It would be like someone with a 454 saying "There's no replacement for displacement" in reference to the guy with a supercharger on his motor, but the guy with a supercharger has a 502...
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