[citation][nom]ngoy[/nom]Nothing has to use your processor 100% to show that your processor is outdated. silentpcreview has a perfect article that shows the performance of the sandy bridge core i3 vs the 565 and 555. Yes, in the price arena, amd has intel beat for budget computing. The problem with budget builds is that the margins are so low, Intel has chosen to not compete in the space, and AMD wants market share so badly they've dropped their prices so low they can barely stay in business. An AMD 555+cheapest MB here in the US would be $90+$45=$135 total. A Core i3-2100 + cheapest MB is $125+$60=$185. For that extra $50 though, you get a processor that is on average, more that 33% faster than the AMD X2 555 chip on practically everything and uses almost 50% less power on average.It isn't Intel's fault that the country where you live is not a prime market for mid to high end cpu's. You said yourself that people there are most cost conscious. Which means that mid to high end parts sit on the shelf, hence the computer dealer having to try to sell stuff he already has.Still don't understand the anti-Intel sentiment, if you knew anything about the history of the two companies, the only reason AMD exists to compete in the space was because of an overreaching arbitration that AMD got back in the 80's. Intel has been doing everything in it's power since to squash them, and rightfully so.[/citation]
my friend I am sorry if my previous comment mislead u. I don't hate Intel because it is developing so fast. I hate intel because they either don't kill their old technology or dont make it cheaper when something new comes in at that price point.
for eg. Core 2 Duo E7500. vs Core i3 2100. both of them are at nearly the same price point (at least here in India). but the technology is 5 years apart. because of that the dealers still keep trying to sell the old tech to get better margins on the motherboards and other parts or they are trying to sell off their old stock.
they even go so far as to not sell the new tech at all, which leads to few dealers having a monopoly on the new technology, and having higher rates then the global average.
in the local market (the one that serves the whole of Mumbai) dealers even go so far as to refuse selling Core i3 2100 alone. if I want to buy it from most of the dealers then I have to pair it with H61 chipset only. otherwise they wont sell it. if I want H67 chipset i have to buy i5 2400 +. and for i7 i have to buy P67. they even go a step further and try to convince me that i3 2100 is not compatible with H67 or P67 chipset. (and they know that I am a computer HW Engineer).
now if intel had reduced the price range of its core 2 duo lineup then it would be easy to ignore these idiots as what product i am trying to buy would be in a different price range altogether. so they wouldn't try to pawn off their dead stock on to customers in the guise of they being same technology.
that said, AMD doesn't disappoint me because whenever they have new product they make sure to keep reducing the price tag of the old product, to keep it attractive.
and for "silverblue"
Why get a 555 when you can get an Athlon II X4 that will run rings around the 555 for a similar price? If your reason for owning a computer extends beyond gaming, an Athlon II X4 will be superior to the Phenom II X2 regardless of the absence of L3 cache. The ideal scenario for the Athlon II X4 would be working with video creation, and if you're throwing properly threaded software at your PC, the Athlon II X4 makes sense, especially for the price. maddy could spend a small amount of money on a processor upgrade and keep the rest of that setup the same, or (s)he could fork out for an Intel processor and motherboard; will the performance boost be worth the money? Depends on the usage model.
my 555 can beat any processor from AMD below Phenom II X4 955, because it is one of the first manufactured pieces in that series. that means it gave me sucessfull unlock to B55. and i don't care about the warranty as long as the processor lasts for 3 years.( and i believe it will because of the low workload on it) and don't tell me that its a luck of draw. because most of the successful unlocks belong to the first few weeks of manufacturing, usually. its performance is enough to beat core i3 2100/2120. also if the CPU does end up dieng on me because of the unlock, then I can just buy a cheap athlon II x4 (assuming my motherboard has not been harmed) and use it till either Bulldozer or Ivy bridge arrive.
and if someone comments about power savings i will say only one thing, if you are changing your CPU/Mobo every year to save power then you are a fool because you dont take into account the money you spent on the new CPU/Mobo. it is my belief that you should use your current processor until you find that your processor is running above 60% for more then half the time your computer is on.
if you reach that point then its time to get a new processor, because you are going to end up having a CPU bottle neck sooner rather then latter.
. At some point though, the avg consumer won't be able to tell between a 24 core 5Ghz cpu and a 128 core 12Ghz cpu. Then the power user won't be able to tell either(They'll claim they can tell between .00056 seconds and .00037 seconds lmao). 
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