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[–] west_pac 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

This is confusing to me too. There's only one specification I look at when buying a CPU: benchmark. I'll buy the fastest one my budget can afford. Sometimes I'll go budget on the graphics card just to increase my CPU + mobo budget. Energy consumption is not a figure I give a shit about except when calculating what size PSU to install. If Intel haven't made a new processor that is faster than the old one then I won't be interested. I'll buy whatever is nearest the top of the benchmarks.

I mean serious gamers are already preferring the Xeon, which is Intel's business chip. That will continue if Intel treats the consumer market as if they're less performance concerned and/or tech savvy than the business market.

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[–] forgetmyname 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

if one were in the business, one would make very sure to design to get high rest results on all the benchmarks to prove you have a great product worth a premium over your competition?

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[–] west_pac ago 

Precisely, what Intel is selling is essentially a tool, and any tool is judged and sold purely on it's ability to perform the function it's designed to do.

If they sold hand drills based on some wooey crap about the environment rather than their ability to make a hole in the wall, nobody would buy them because people don't buy drills to save the environment, they buy drills to make a fucking hole in the wall.