N4CR
Supreme [H]ardness
- Joined
- Oct 17, 2011
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How anyone can get so bent out of shape about trivial differences is laughable
Very likely because they are paid to or benefit from shitting on AMD via share price shilling. If you'd banked most of your retirement in Intel/Nvidia shares, you'd shit on AMD at every chance you'd get, wouldn't you?
It's easy because that is two main consumer facing market sectors with one company. Intel doesn't make AIB dGPUs and Nvidia doesn't make x86 CPUs. AMD does both so is the easiest boost to share portfolio when it loses. Also they want a monopoly and hate the idea of competition killing their profits/shares (like AMD is poised to do in CPU market). Considering Vega doesn't look too healthy, now imagine if the fresh start of Rajas' Navi does any good when the process advantage of Nvidia is mostly gone? That's two companies they are taking market share from now.
Now go look at how many posts they make per day here - newfag accounts with over 3k posts in just a year. Some are well over 10 posts per day. That's 99% either a dole bludger posting all day, paid for a job, or a shareholder. That 1% is the actual crazy fan (who are usually unhinged and pretty obvious). It's pretty simple, once you've been here or elsewhere a while you can see the pattern. They do this until people get sick of it, banned or shat on constantly (shintel is approaching this event horizon rapidly), then they'll make a new account, start more gingerly and rinse and repeat.
You don't see this level of rabid fanboyism in almost any other sector - even the car brand fans are not this bad. Even the bikers will rib each other for their choice, but won't break it down to synthetic benchmarks of 1/4 mile speed being 0.1s faster or braking 2ft shorter from 100kmh = x brand is a turd..
That Tyan is fucking sexy. Gigabyte should've had some gratuitous socket porn like Tyan has - socket covers are e-boner killers, like pixelated areas in Japanese porn.
16x Sata functionality and all lanes are making me moist. I have not been so excited for a new CPU/platform since Athlon 64 days. Everything since then (while sure, some great performance jumps) has been pretty meh. Slightly faster PCI-e, bit more Sata, faster CPUs, onboard everything RGBRGBRGBRGBRGB etc.