Recent content by RiverRunsRed

Wow, you are the man! You must love Intel too much!!:p

If you are hardcore PC geek, you will never buy a Dell PC and you will always build one by yourself. If you know nothing about PC, Dell is a safe bet. Why can't you wait for the budget version of Intel 45 nm?

Intel has employee discount program which allows each Intel guy to buy retail chips at 50% of their retail prices. Basically, you can get the new 45nm Quad Extreme edition for about $490. Each Intel guy can only buy 1. I don't think most of them know this benefit:p The Q6600 costs about $135...

AMD K-10 server chip is in far better shape than its desktop counterpart. AMD has not dead yet. Let's give them some hope. By the way, I don't like Hector. He braggs too much.

Go Quad. You will have issues with your motherboard if you want to pick Intel 45 nm quad CPU now or later. I strongly recommand you to avoid nVidia boards. Currently, the existing nVidia boards are not supporting 45nm Intel Quad. (They support 65 nm Quad/Dual and 45nm dual). 680i/650i users...

Can you wait? Currently, C2D Quad is overpowering Phenom. Since you are changing MB, why not wait newer Phenom comming out? Or you can pick Intel Quad

I always have hope for AMD to come back and it has done it for several times in its history. History can't predict future .... I really hope AMD can survive this time without bankrupcy. Competition is good for us. Look what Nvidia is doing to us now? We still don't have 2nd generation high...

I don't think I can share the numbers (I don't want to have trouble). Since Nehalem is a MCP product (that is what we call it, MCP project internally), planning needs to be very careful. Cost reduction is the key. That is all I can tell you.

Duby: Please do some researches before posting misleading message. Being in chip supply-chain management industry for almost ten years, MCM is cheaper to produce. The current project of mine is to provide planning solution for Intel's next 32-nm chip: Nehalem. Since the process steps are so...

Who wrote the statement below doesn't know what he is talking about :). Yes, low end is where the revenues come from but the high end, server chips, is where the profit comes from. Profit is the key, not the revenue. AMD can keep lowering its average selling price and get more and more market...

Hi, currently, Crysis is GPU bound. Both AMD and Intel chips can do fine jobs. I see issues with your AGP board and GPU. If you can switch to a PCIe board and pick 8800GT, you will get your money more worthy.:)

Initial benchmarks are not favoring AMD Phenom X4. Things look not good. It just barely closes gapes with 1st generation of Intel Quad Core. Not even mention the Penryn :mad: