New Phenom II Benchmarks "Deneb"

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
Meh then again this is useless. No hard facts, just marketing.

Sadly we really got to ask ourselves "has there ever been a leak that made a damn bit of difference to us in any regard?".

Personally I can't think of a single instance in which I read a rumor/leak/honest NDA gaffe that actually resulted in impacting my decision-making process for purchasing anything.

In regards to this specific thread's contents, since they do come from a legitimate sanctioned leak we can at least avoid wasting time/effort determining whether the results are fraud/photochop which has occupied many PhII threads to-date. So it isn't entirely useless.

But the facts are indeed dribbled out to the public in a fashion that is intended to keep the data as useless to the reader as possible so as to not undermine the "value-add" that reviewers such as Anandtech are intended to generate via nearly-free advertising the day of NDA release.

Leaks and reviews are all part of the nearly-free advertising aspect of marketing's strategy at just about every company, and since we readers get the info for free in all cases it is a buyer-beware situation (you get what you pay for).

Actually when the C2D was announced and people were first playing with them and getting 50%+ overclocks from the E6300s it did change my mind and I decided to purchase an Intel CPU when it was available. I had planned an upgrade anyway around that time.

It just depends on what else is in competition with it at the time. This time around, Intel is a giant and it will take a lot to get people to jump on the PII bandwagon. Simply posting screenshots of CPUz and giving no solid stability tests or benchmark information will not necessarily help. At least in my mind.