From reading reviews and posts, not just on this forum but any hardware enthusiast site, I can get the impression that for building a gaming machine, the Phenom is a horrible choice. While it certainly does have its fair share of problems (clock speed, TDP, etc.), gaming is certainly not one of them.

But the question is, if AMD’s Phenom just happened to overpower Intel’s Core 2 Quad in anything clock-for-clock would anybody notice? Specifically, I'm speaking of gaming...

From what is probably the result of having too much time available due to my recent high school graduation, for some reason I had the strange desire to write about something. Writing isn't something I have been particularly interested in doing in the past, but every once in a while a problem or issue will come along that just makes me want to get my opinion out there, and I'm noticing just this while reading about the Nvidia-PhysX-Vantage "scandal" and so I'm offering my take on the situation......