Very promising. Next would be to check benchmarks on Archiving, Super pi, etc; as those deal mostly with the cpu, rather then on the graphics card with it.
You were right And for all those who don't feel like scrolling through the pages threshold Numbers go like 1.Core 2 Duo E6600 Average FPS 2.Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Average FPS 3Core 2 Duo time beneath threshold 4.Athlon 64 X2 time beneath threshold 1 2 3 4 Half-Life 2: EP1 113 86 0% 8% Oblivion 42 40 3% 10% Battlefield 2 90 76 0% 6% Rise of Legends 45 37 11% 30% Titan Quest 72 65 0% 1% World of Warcraft 63 62 1% 4% Average 71 61 3% 10%
Hmm this might change if amd decides to go through with making amd/ati cpus (graphics card in a cpu how cool would it be to have several things in just one little square?)
TH also did a similar article, except they did Core 2 Extreme X6800 vs. Athlon 64 FX-62. This wasn't like a normal article though, they overclocked them as much as is possible on air cooling. The article is here: http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/08/02/thg_tuning_test_uk/
batch yields woudl be so horrible that it would be uneconomical. unless of course you consider 15k for a single chip economical... when the individual parts are like 300 each...
