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By ViperROhb34 on 5/23/2006 8:14:23 AM , Rating: 2

I remember the days that AMD has just released the Athlon.. maybe around 7rs ago. The backlash - since most people had Pentiums - from fanboys was huge.

I told people for yrs that their quality for performance was unmatchable.

It's good to finally see AMD has grown up- they are still a small company - nimble and able to change quickly. Now to see them with the latest platforms and technology gives me satisfying feeling.

Even if Intel has better stuff.. they'll never dominate like before.. I think this will keep prices down for quite some time.


RE: Memories
By Master Kenobi (blog) on 5/23/2006 1:27:02 PM , Rating: 1
Well the tables have really come full circle here. AM2 doesn't really do anything for AMD, ok so you use DDR2 like the rest of us Intel folks have for the past year. But as far as performance goes, theres really nothing to gain. I'll give them props for pushing a new line of chips that have lower power requirements but again theyre raising the price point on already overpriced AMD chips. It's almost to the point right now where I can buy 2 Pentium D chips for a comparable AMD X2 chip. I don't care that I get 5 more FPS with the AMD chip, for the price its not worth it when I can use that saved money to get 25 more FPS when I buy the better Mobo/Ram.

Hopefully AMD drops the price on the processors, as of right now they simply don't deliver enough performance over Intel to warrant the large price gap. K8L maybe, but not AM2. then again AM2 is nothing but a new socket where as K8L is an architectural improvement.

RE: Memories
By TomZ on 5/24/2006 7:12:24 PM , Rating: 2
Slightly OT, but I notice on DT if you talk positive about AMD or negative about Intel, people bump your rating higher, and conversely, if you talk negative about AMD or postive about Intel, people bump your rating down. That's pretty lame, if you ask me.

RE: Memories
By animedude on 5/28/2006 1:59:58 AM , Rating: 2
You are paying AMD64, which boosts 30-40% performance on 64bit apps. Does Pentium D provide it? Pentium D is cheap, but why would I buy something that will become obselete? If I want to buy anything from Intel, it will be Core 2 Duo chips.


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