Looking at the benchmarks on Tom’s Hardware of the new Intel LGA 1156 processors it looks like AMD’s top of the line Phenom II X4 965 BE can’t keep up with the i5 750 and currently costs significantly more.
With the new Intel CPUs it looks like AMD CPUs will be relegated to the low (sub $700) end of the gaming PC market and the $800 on up gaming PC market is dominated in the new i5 & i7 in the $800-$1000 price range and $1200 on up by older LGA 1366 Core i7 CPUs. This is not a good situation for AMD to be in seeing that they are still running in the red.
That being said AMD still is a decent value when an Phenom II X3 720 is paired with a Radeon HD 4780, you still have a good gaming rig that will run current games at medium to high detail on a 22” LCD. It’s a good rig for a semi-casual gamer, or a gamer trying to stretch their budget as far as possible. The downside is AMD makes very little money off such a rig and would rather be selling the mid to high end part of the market like they were three to four years ago.
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