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[brewin]

images/news/hardware.jpgProcessor reviews tend to focus on performance, and rightly so. We all want to see how well the latest silicon plays games, encodes media files, renders scenes, and performs various other tasks. But performance isn't the only metric that's important for CPUs. For instance, power consumption and energy efficiency are also an important piece of the puzzle, as is the actual cost of the chip. In their comparison of 16 different CPUs from Intel and AMD, The Tech Report attempts to show exactly how much bang you'll get from dropping your hard-earned bucks on a particular CPU.

Of special interest to x64bit is Tech Report's inclusion of a Folding@Home benchmark. We encourage everyone to join our Folding@Home team to help advance medical research. You can learn more in our forum.

The Tech Report

[banj0]

Very interesting report. Thanks Brewman.

[m.oreilly]

yep, i'm a "3800" kinda guy from now on

[chriso_86]

Interesting!! My processor made the list!! Also, the quad core that I'm wanting to get also made their honorable mention so it looks like I know how to pick em!!

[VROSA]

It was a nice reading... a very good and complete report.

Thanks Brewin

[Camaro]

It seems like a good base line to start but there are so many varibles I believe it would be very hard to make a real world determination. The results are inconclusive in some cases. and the benchmarks could have been different for example the folding could use the multicore client.