Phenom II X4 940 @ 275 $ Beats Core i7
920@284$.Also both overclockable by 1GHz.
1-Phenom II X4 940@275 $ roughly ties in performance with Corei7 920@284$.
2-But the Motherboard for AMD is way cheaper than the X58 For INTEL.
3-DDR3 used by Core i7 is 3 times more expensive than DDR2 used by AMD.
4-Phenom X4 is backward compatible it work with All AM2+ and also most AM2 boards also both r equally overclockable by 1GHz.Phenom II from 3 to 4 GHz and core i7 from 2.66 to 3.7 GHz.So only an as*h*le will buy a Nehalen Ci7 920.
I find many of user in threads write WOW corei7 is gr8 CPU my GOD intel is gr8.Intel customer ki watt lag de di