Even worse, lol. There was an article about it i saw the other day, showing that even without Cool 'n' Quiet enabled, Athlon 64 Venices consumed as much power, under load, as idle Pentium D's. Disgraceful.
Yes, definitely. Man, i don't wanna bore you with stories about ice caps and shit, but care about the poor Earth, dude, putting up with all that carbon dioxide. AMD - friends of the Earth.
Man, if i was gonna get a desktop, i'd love one based on the new VIA C7. Dammm, that processor looks sexy.
Depends on you idea of poor performance I would call a Dual Core Processor only being able to organise two threads poor performance and dreadful PCMark 04 Scores poor performance