AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750 - Athlon 64 X2 Kuma Dual-Core 2.7 GHz Socket AM2+ 95W black edition Processor - AD775ZWCGHBOX

Pros: To the other reviewer... So your E8500 "smokes" this CPU? Well I would expect it to perform better as it costs over $100 more!

And I would not use the term "smoke" one persons "smoke" is another persons 3fps :)

Who do people like to compare Apples to Oranges? How about this... lets compare this CPU to an Intel CPU that costs $75

Intel makes great CPU's (well now they do LOL) but when I shop for CPU's I shop based on price and I compare CPU's of "like price" as I like to get the best bang for my buck. In games the fps has less to do with the CPU as it does the Video Card so the only reason to go with the much more expensive Intel CPU's are for bragging rights.... "My CPU is faster than your CPU"

I'm not knocking Intel... as I said they make great CPU's but they sure charge for them. If you want, and can afford, an Intel they go for it but I'm sick of people comparing AMD CPU's to Intel CPUs that cost far far more.

Cons: It's not free :)

Overall Review: Those "top of the line" Intel CPU's that you see at the top of all the benchmarks... take a look at what they cost here at Newegg. The "benchmark kings" are about $1300! How does a $1300 CPU getting me 90fps in games differ from a $75 AMD cpu that "only" gets me 50fps?

The "smart" people will laugh all the way to the bank :)

Pros: It's AMD, it's cheap (ish), and Newegg has Free Shipping.

Cons: For comparison I clocked my previous processor, the Athlon64 X2 6000+ down to 2.7ghz, and the difference in floating point performance is substantial, ~2700 million operations/sec for my 6000+ and 2300 million operations/sec for the 7750. Memory performance was also down 3000MB/s in read speed, 4000MB/s in copy, and 5000MB/s write, as well as increasing latency 50% from 44.4ns to 66.6ns (memory performance measured using EVEREST 4.60, floating point performance measured using CPU Benchmarks in BOINC). In WinRAR tests the 6000+ performs ~1300KB/s where the 7750 performs ~1000KB/s. The fan that comes with it has no heatpipes.

Overall Review: AMD was attempting to replace the (still) ruling Windsor's (Athlon X2 6K+ & 6.4K+) with, literally, half a Phenom, and the results are disastrous. Performance is seriously degraded from the Windsor line, all for the trade off of a little better power performance. If you want a dual core, buy a real one, the Windsor 6000+ or 6400+. They're cheaper and faster. As for this one, I'm RMAing it and taking the $19 penalty and switching back to my 6000+.