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Just as in my comments regarding CPU reviews, I would begin by saying that I trust xbit labs more than any other wanna-bees out there, just because I'm reading those articles for years now and they never used to lie before, at least I believe so.
Of course, a number of trusted sources, like anandtech, posted a different picture of the X2, so I must confess I'm a bit puzzled, too. Not that I would ever go and by a X2 by myself - I'm pretty damn paranoid about the bad consequences of such a made-up design.
To sum up, this is a cowardly solution to me, which, as noted in the review, is intended just to give a little more time for the AMD engineers to come up with something more elegant. For now, I don't see any reasons for buying an ambiguous transitional product as the X2. The past has shown that such sandwiches get blown away by a next generation single-chip designs pretty soon.
But I would buy an ordinary 3870. It's such a bless for non-demanding users, with such a low power envelope... Nice :)
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