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[Opteron]

(letter swiped from theinquirer.net) Then I swiped it from Free-DC...


Subject: AMD

There might have been a day when changing from one company to another to obtain the fastest processor made sense. Except for the most demanding of users, that is no longer the case. While it may be true that Intel processors are currently faster than AMD, there is no compelling reason to throw your AMD based system out in the yard and go running to your local computer store, with huge wads of cash in hand, to hungrily purchase this new and wonderful processor from Intel.

It is true that that AMD may fail but that will be primarily because of a lack of brand loyalty throughout the industry. Rather than rushing out to buy an Intel processor, unless there is a truly compelling need, we should rush out and buy a new and faster AMD processor. The funds, so spent, will enable AMD to continue to flourish. It is absolutely fundamental that AMD not fail. Do you think for a moment that we would have our current superfast processors, that can be purchased for reasonable prices, without the competition that AMD provides. It is very likely that the price of processors would be much higher and the speed of such processors would be much slower. Without the intense competition within the processor market place there would be little incentive for Intel to provide faster processors.

The dollars would have gone and will certainly go in the future, to the stockholders instead of into research. One only has to look in the direction of Microsoft to see what happens when there is a lack of competition. We receive useless programs like Vista, and if we want something better where do we turn? Much of this process of rushing out to buy the new Intel offerings is about peer pressure.

Trade your AMD based systems in for an Intel-based system at your peril. Amen

L Babcock

[BlackAdder]

Amen to that...I'm looking into a new X2 system myself to supplement my XP3200.I can not see myself buying anything from Intel...still got memory's of my last Intel..a DX2-66 piece of crap.

[Big Whiskey]

I'm want replace my single cores

waiting for to see the new AM2 mobo's with intergrated video

I hoping to be able to run Folding GPU client off these boards so I don't have too buy seperate vid cards for it

[Ototero]

I'm running an AMD 4200+ on an Asrock AM2NF6G-VSTA mobo. It has integrated graphics, runs sweet with XP, Vista thinks the graphics are too slow, but b0110x to Vista.

[Frederic Brillouet]

i was going to look into intels, but now that i'm more active again here, i say f intel.

offtopic: Ototero, when is the girl in your avatar turning round?

[Steve Lux]

Oh, we've asked him that several times, but this IS a family site.

[Ototero]

Frederic, search the old threads, there has been lots of talk about her turning round. I'm still waiting for the day.

Back on topic now.....

Mobo mobo blah blah etc lol

[Opteron]

I have 2 AMD64 4000+ (2.4) OC’d to 2.6GHz and a Opteron 146 (2.0) OC’d to 2.6GHz and the 4000's just can’t keep up...
When I recover from my ill-advised jaunt to Lousy-anna I’m just gonna start saving for the Quad Core Opteron... I love the Opteron hence the screen name...

[Lagu]

I have 1 AMD Athlon64 3200+ and it is 3 year old but works fine. Sometimes it is faster than my New Intel. I´m proud of my AMD and have no plan putting it out.

[gparsons70]

I don't like Intel or Microsoft. The new vista OS means going out and buying all new programs. My Sat Internet system won't even run on Vista. Intel and Microsoft are all about profit. AMD is all about the "shoot from the hip, free earthling". I'm running an AMD 64 3200+ on an nforce4 mother that came with an over clocking program.
I would like to see a forum on tweaking your AMD for top speeds to crunch the numbers faster.
That's the difference between Intel and AMD.
Intel is "do what we say, just plug it in". AMD is "lets see how fast we can get this sucker to go before see burns".