Considering Going back to INTEL just 1 question?

xonik said:
And why do you take issue to that? Isn't it fair to test a dual core Yonah against a dual core Athlon 64 X2?

I had no issue at all, it is very fair. The other guy said Yonah vs. A64, I was just pointing that the review was of Yonah vs X2, NOT A64@2GHz.

Donnie27
 
RaphaelVinceti said:
Intel dumped Netburst because it was a mistake, and AMD was killing them because of it. (When i mean killing, i mean, AMD was starting to gain larger market share, and Intel is like microsoft, in that Intel doesnt like someone encroaching on their turf) If AMD hadn't been killing them, Intel would have probably kept netburst and tried to make it work, just because they could, they had the time, and they didnt have to worry about another company taking their profits.

and AMD is probably designing a new architecture, but, right now, they are focusing on their Dual core options, which are, btw, FAR better than intels options. Two P4s slapped together is not the way a dual core should be, AMD's offering is much better.

Again, AMD had ZERO to do with Intel Dropping anything on the Desktop=P Intel couldn't do what they wanted, namely 5GHz so they killed it. AMD has NEVER killed Intel for ANY market Share. You're reading too many FanSites. I keep saying Desktop because AMD's real gains have been made in the Server Sector. Intel kicked the Crap out of them in the Notebook and Offshore sales of EVERYTHING. 50% of the American market means about 7% of the worlds market.

I don't have any issue with folks saying how much better AMD's Duals Cores are. I almost bought one myself. The problem is, there aren't enough of them to change anything in the DESKTOP SECTOR. That's like saying BMW is going to hurt Honda sales, get it?

Donnie27
 
Donnie27 said:
Again, AMD had ZERO to do with Intel Dropping anything on the Desktop=P Intel couldn't do what they wanted, namely 5GHz so they killed it. AMD has NEVER killed Intel for ANY market Share. You're reading too many FanSites. I keep saying Desktop because AMD's real gains have been made in the Server Sector. Intel kicked the Crap out of them in the Notebook and Offshore sales of EVERYTHING. 50% of the American market means about 7% of the worlds market.

I don't have any issue with folks saying how much better AMD's Duals Cores are. I almost bought one myself. The problem is, there aren't enough of them to change anything in the DESKTOP SECTOR. That's like saying BMW is going to hurt Honda sales, get it?

Donnie27

hmmm, idk..... I think amd is making a much bigger splash in the desktop market. Walk into a best buy or circuit city and there are several high end amd 64 machines in contrast to a few years ago. Also, AMD has alot more recognition than they did a few years ago. I think intel realised this and decided to change before a major change in the market occured.
 
AMD is an indirect reason for Intels dropping of Netburst. Indirect. Intel dropped it, yes, because it was a failure (not being able to do what it was designed to do, namely 5 ghz, is a failure). But, if Intel didnt have such a competitor in Intel, it would have spent money on Improving its current architecture, rather than dropping MORE money on developing a new one.

As for if i would take the High and Risky road over the low and safe one.. I would take the high and Risky, if you come out alright, you come out ontop, rather than taking a low, safe path that doesnt offer very much.
 
sabrewolf732 said:
hmmm, idk..... I think amd is making a much bigger splash in the desktop market. Walk into a best buy or circuit city and there are several high end amd 64 machines in contrast to a few years ago. Also, AMD has alot more recognition than they did a few years ago. I think intel realised this and decided to change before a major change in the market occured.

AMD has never suffered from a *real large number of folks not knowing about them, that's an Internet wisetail. The largest buyer of PC's by far are Business Users, not home buyers. Better platforms have been seen as the biggest reason for AMD's increased sales and NEW Customer trust, not speedy processors. I was in Best Buy as a Newbi asked a salesmen, "Have they (the A64s system he was looking at) changed much since the Crashlon days?" After talking to him, he admitted to being only an experienced user, not a builder. Botched his last build.

Business folks know full and well who AMD is. Many home users have more than one PC and it is very hard to find a first time buyer. Many folks had POS Compaq, Mircon, HP and Gateway AMD systems with VIA motherboards. The first nForce boards were buggy as well. They're pissed at the rip-offs they suffered and are just like a Honda and Toyota owners who got jipped by Ford or GM. It means NOTHING to them that Ford and GM are making good cars now. Total PC sales for AMD in the US market = around 7% of the World's market and not even 50% of AMD's own world wide sales.

All I'm saying is there isn't enough Hammers to make Intel change anything it's doing, same goes for notebooks. Desktop Sales have been flat or loosing ground. While Notebooks have taken ground from them. Servers is the only real thing that has Intel looking over it's should. I just saw Madagascar and during the Credits it says rederred by .......HP Opterons at ..... Fact is, it is hard to find Hollywood FX houses and etc.. Not using Opterons and many made by Intel's Partner HP. Intel's and AMD's combind U.S. sales floats between 14.8 and 15.5% of the PC sold in the world and I think they included Notebooks in that figure.

Donnie27
 
Donnie27 said:
Total PC sales for AMD in the US market = around 7% of the World's market and not even 50% of AMD's own world wide sales.
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Intel's and AMD's combind U.S. sales floats between 14.8 and 15.5% of the PC sold in the world and I think they included Notebooks in that figure.
Donnie27

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Wasn't there an issue on this. I think it was about Intel forcing people to sell their stuff? :rolleyes:
 
sabrewolf732 said:
lol donnie. look at the desktop, it shows amd increasing market share and intel decreasing.and the global x86 market has an even bigger increase from amd, and bigger decrease from intel.Intel went from 82 to 80% while amd increased from 16 to 17%. A noticable differance.

While you're at it, look at others like IDT, Merc and etc.., that's just one dewd. The point was, there STILL wasn't enough K8's to make Intel change anything or kill a certain Processor. Now look up how many Hammers are sold during that same time? Or do you truely think it was AthlonXP, that still makes up the Lion's share of AMD processors, that made Intel Kill Netburst?

Pull up the Chart showing Intel's Profits during that same time? Yes it grew LOL! 2.75Billion in profits on 80% of the market is much better than 2.4billion while hold 83% of the market. That means Intel made more with less has NO reason run off crying like a little girl scared of AMD, hehehe! Hammers are real competition and there still aren't enough of them to make Intel kill of any product=P One word, volume.

Simple and plainly put, Intel couldn't take Netburst high as they wanted it to go so Paul Otellini and gang killed it. It didn't have shit to do with AMD's Desktop stuff=P Dual core and Opterons must cause them nightmares though.

Donnie27
 
Right so first they have to make money, the money that Intel is hogging the crap out of. Then they could start mass producing. :rolleyes:
 
XSNiper said:
Right so first they have to make money, the money that Intel is hogging the crap out of. Then they could start mass producing. :rolleyes:

Well, that didn't stop the Germans and the EU from building two 2 billion Dollar Fabs for them uh? Do you think they will play fair with Intel or block markets to try to get investment back sooner? :rolleyes: K8 is a good processor performance wise but a Pain in the ass to RAMP UP. That's an IBM and AMD problem that Intel has nothing to do with :D

Donnie27
 
Donnie27 said:
Well, that didn't stop the Germans and the EU from building two 2 billion Dollar Fabs for them uh? Do you think they will play fair with Intel or block markets to try to get investment back sooner? :rolleyes: K8 is a good processor performance wise but a Pain in the ass to RAMP UP. That's an IBM and AMD problem that Intel has nothing to do with :D

Donnie27

I wouldn't say that, AMD processors have progressively ramped up well with each new revision. newcastle -> winchester -> venice.
 
Nasgul said:


You must be mistaken with the "fact" that Intel has the power to MASS produce and gain in mass against the competition, it's the base of an American Company, take for example Coke and Pepsi, Beer CO., Hut vs Dominos, Nike vs New Balance.

Intel has the $$$ to mass produce (unlike the competition) and sell at a lower cost to OEMs (unlike the competition), we don't get that nice price because Intel (& AMD) makes us pay a little more for the 3 year warranty, and also Intel advertises in mass.
If you think Intel cannot mass produce and sell a hell of alot less to OEMs than the competition? think again: Intel To Extend Manufacturing Leadership With Second 45nm 300mm Wafer Factory


He's talking about how Intel said they would punish certain oem's if they bought and sold amd. not how intel can mass produce it's procs. Look up information about monopolies.





I'll drink to that! ****** Netburst rules!

Have you seen benchmarks?

I'd say, thanks to Netburst that's very feasible. If Conroe will be based off of Dothan (+Netburst)

the pentium 3 architecture is what makes dothan perform as well as it does, not netburst.
 
Nasgul said:
I said Conroe will be based off Dothan (+ Netburst), meaning Dothan + Netburst = Conroe......you're as easy to deceive as benchmarks deceive people.
Um, how do you figure that Conroe is a Dothan with NetBurst architectural traits?
 
Nasgul said:

Have you ever heard the word "competition" ? Said, if Bank of America would finance your house for 7.8% on a 30 y/o loan and Wachovia would say: Hey! dude I'll finace it for 4%......with your high level of education, which bank's offer would you choose?


Genius boy, they are penalizing people for going amd. That's what they're being sued for, not for offering better deals :rolleyes:


um..... I don't care? What does that have to do with what I said.





You meant the benchmarks showing A64s being fme servers only allow a max of 37 fps......or how about theast in ""Time Demos" but when you actually go buy the "retail" version of the game you're encountered with a "cap frame rate"?, How about the fact that if you're going to play online most ga fact that if you have an LCD monitor you're stock with a NATIVE refersh rate of 70Hertz max......if you think you're seeing those 170+ fps that you think you're getting........think again and again and again and again.
So you're excuse is, "we don't need any more performance". Sorry but thats not how advancing technology works, try again.



My 13 yo. nephew plays UT2K4 online with this other group of people, one day he asked me what system do I have? I asked him why he wanted to know? He replied that his "friends" wanted to see what he got, because he said that all of them use amd and he didn't know. I told him to tell them that he had a 4K+ and a GeForce 7800 GT.....oh boy! they praised him (and his uncle, Me!) for letting him have a nice machine......yet it is only a 540 with a 6600 GT........fools!

Where do you come up with what you say? What does that have to do with anything? UT04 is an old ass game, I know a guy that plays it on a 1GHz p3 and a 8500 :rolleyes:



I said Conroe will be based off Dothan (+ Netburst), meaning Dothan + Netburst = Conroe......you're as easy to deceive as benchmarks deceive people.

A typo, yes omfg! they exist. Substitute conroe in for dothan.
 
sabrewolf732 said:
I wouldn't say that, AMD processors have progressively ramped up well with each new revision. newcastle -> winchester -> venice.

Progessively no, improved yes. The first yields were so bad, IBM and AMD had nowhere to go but up. Keep in mind that AMD's market share goes up as Intel transistions/moves to a smaller Processor and EOL's older Architectures.

Got a link to how many Hammers and or X2's AMD builds each quarter?

Donnie27
 
Donnie27 said:
Progessively no, improved yes. The first yields were so bad, IBM and AMD had nowhere to go but up. Keep in mind that AMD's market share goes up as Intel transistions/moves to a smaller Processor and EOL's older Architectures.

Got a link to how many Hammers and or X2's AMD builds each quarter?

Donnie27

No I don't have a link. However I'm betting with the next revision amd will be able to put out 2.6-3GHz processors pretty easily (not talking about FX)
 
Nasgul said:

Have you ever heard the word "competition" ? Said, if Bank of America would finance your house for 7.8% on a 30 y/o loan and Wachovia would say: Hey! dude I'll finace it for 4%......with your high level of education, which bank's offer would you choose?

OEMs are in to make a buck and the bigger the better, it's fact that amd has no money nor the fabs to mass produce thus OEMs will not take the risk of buying low ammounts for higher prices than the competition, how can you or anyone think that this is not the way CORPORATE America works? Coke does it to Pepsi all the time, I don't see Pepsi filing for lawsuits. Thing is: When you can't beat them.......sue 'em!






You meant the benchmarks showing A64s being fast in ""Time Demos" but when you actually go buy the "retail" version of the game you're encountered with a "cap frame rate"?, How about the fact that if you're going to play online most game servers only allow a max of 37 fps......or how about the fact that if you have an LCD monitor you're stock with a NATIVE refersh rate of 70Hertz max......if you think you're seeing those 170+ fps that you think you're getting........think again and again and again and again.

What? you thought you're getting what you paid for? LOL

My 13 yo. nephew plays UT2K4 online with this other group of people, one day he asked me what system do I have? I asked him why he wanted to know? He replied that his "friends" wanted to see what he got, because he said that all of them use amd and he didn't know. I told him to tell them that he had a 4K+ and a GeForce 7800 GT.....oh boy! they praised him (and his uncle, Me!) for letting him have a nice machine......yet it is only a 540 with a 6600 GT........fools!

oh yeah! benchmarks rule!



I am not talking about Dothan having Netburst.

I said Conroe will be based off Dothan (+ Netburst), meaning Dothan + Netburst = Conroe......you're as easy to deceive as benchmarks deceive people.

Take a loook at this article ..........134fps in Doom 3........LOL

This says it best.

According to Bryant, the capital required to drive production processes forward will continue to increase in the future and limit the number of companies that can afford to make those investments. "When a new fab costs $5 billion, a company will need revenues of almost $10 billion per year, if we assume a gross margin of 40 percent. Today there is only Samsung and Intel with revenues above that mark," Bryant said. At today's cost of about $3.5 billion per fab, Intel estimates the required annual revenues at about $7 billion to make its model work.

Donnie27
 
Nasgul said:
Take a loook at this article ..........134fps in Doom 3........LOL[/COLOR]


HardOCP review said:
3D gaming is where the entire Athlon 64 family really starts to shine brilliantly. The scores we saw from the FX-55 and Athlon 64 4000+ are simply some of the fastest we have ever seen. New games, old games, it simply does not matter. The Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX series are the powerhouse that most gamers today are going to want in their systems.

Huh? What? :p
 
While some Intel fans claim to not be able to tell the difference, I have to call BS. I had a Pentium 4 550@3.95GHz with the best DDR2 ram on the market at the time, Raptors, a 6800GT@Ultra speeds, and then I switched to an AMD Athlon 3800+ because my gaming performance wasn't nearly as good as AMD based systems. Friends of mine had A64's and I noticed the difference right away on their boxes.

Several games felt faster out of the box. There were a couple I couldn't really tell apart, but the bulk of games were MUCH smoother on the A64 rig vs. the Pentium 4.

Now, In SLi I or Crossfire, I can see the differences mattering less. All I changed was the mobo, CPU and ram and I noticed massive gains all around. I hated the way the system performed in other apps, but gaming is what I primarily use my PC for anyway, so I kept the A64. People who can't tell the difference between a high end Pentium, and a medium-high end Athlon obviously haven't tried both chips on equal (as equal as possible) platforms.

The differences weren't small. My 3D Mark scores didn't change, but in games it sure made a difference.
 
Sir-Fragalot said:
While some Intel fans claim to not be able to tell the difference, I have to call BS. I had a Pentium 4 550@3.95GHz with the best DDR2 ram on the market at the time, Raptors, a 6800GT@Ultra speeds, and then I switched to an AMD Athlon 3800+ because my gaming performance wasn't nearly as good as AMD based systems. Friends of mine had A64's and I noticed the difference right away on their boxes.

Several games felt faster out of the box. There were a couple I couldn't really tell apart, but the bulk of games were MUCH smoother on the A64 rig vs. the Pentium 4.

Now, In SLi I or Crossfire, I can see the differences mattering less. All I changed was the mobo, CPU and ram and I noticed massive gains all around. I hated the way the system performed in other apps, but gaming is what I primarily use my PC for anyway, so I kept the A64. People who can't tell the difference between a high end Pentium, and a medium-high end Athlon obviously haven't tried both chips on equal (as equal as possible) platforms.

The differences weren't small. My 3D Mark scores didn't change, but in games it sure made a difference.

I agree, I CAN tell differances between cpu speeds in games. For example my old clawhammer at stock 1.8 vs 2.4 in counter strike source. The differance was tangible, and it wasn't the placebo effect either. Sometimes I would reset my bios and forget to set the htt bus so that the cpu would be 2.4, I would fire up UT or CSS and right away I would notice the differance and I would have to restart :p
 
Nasgul said:
No, they're offereing a better deal than what amd can offer, that's all. It's called "incentives", Mobile phone companies do that all the time, except they CAN compete with each other.


you're pretty dense, they're not being sued for offering lower prices, they're not being sued for offering better deals, they're being sued for PENALIZING oems if they sell amd. I dont know what's so hard to understand.


You still can't get the fact on "cap frame rate" don't you? Hey! if you makes you feel good about a CPU being fast on "time demos" but it's a different story on "retail" version......good for you, fact is if you're still not seeing 61fps in Doom 3 or Quake 4. 60 MAX!. Care for some F.E.A.R.. F.Y.I. several other games have a cap frame rate, not just Doom 3 or Quake 4.

Just to let you know there is a thing called "minimum" fps in games, AMD has the higher "minimum" fps. Also, everyone and their mother knows that fear is a gpu limited game. :rolleyes: Look at unreal 2004, css and half life 2.
And if I want to brag about "best" gaming CPU, I'd chose a Dothan in a heart-beat.
So would I if I could get a pci-e dothan board without paying an arm and a leg. In fact, I'm a huge supporter of dothan, look at my other posts, or ask donnie.


Interesting. So now 3D games rely on CPU exclusively. I guess if someone buys an A64 4000+ and a GeForce 6200 it would be a hell of a lot faster than a P4 3.0ghz with a GeForce 7800 GTX, wouldn't it?........Right! CPU is SO important.

Now you're just making things up as usual :eek: When did I say that? Quote me.

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they didnt even hit the 60fps cap, look at how high the res is and look how much of a performance differance the fx57 has over intel processors
 
sabrewolf732 said:
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they didnt even hit the 60fps cap, look at how high the res is and look how much of a performance differance the fx57 has over intel processors

Well, that graph does show some sort of capped limit because all of the AMD processors are within .7 FPS of each other even though they are running 2.2Ghz-2.8Ghz.
 
Nasgul said:


hehehehe.........speed. You mean to tell us that when you're driving down the road at a 49mph, you'll see the differnce from going 54mph? Unless you don't look at the numbers (speedometer & benchmarks) you will never see the difference, and if anyone is concern with the 5fps, just overclock! and you'll hit that frame cap. Voila! Frame cap reached. OVER!.

LOL...I figured that was flame bait. I can take it out ;). I don't know...some people will say they can notice a difference between 49-54 fps. I can't. Like I've said before (maybe not in this thread), it's more about price/performance right now. I wouldn't buy any of those processors in that list :). I have an Opteron 165 right now because I get the highest price/performance ratio that's within my price range. But if Intel comes out with something better, I don't have problems jumping ship like some other guys would. I have no brand loyalty. I buy whatever suits my needs and budget best. That being said, Dothan (and probably Yonah initially) are way outside my budget between boards and CPU's (and the fact that I already have DDR memory). I hope Intel becomes more competitive so we, as consumers get better products in the long run, but until they do...
 
sabrewolf732 said:
No I don't have a link. However I'm betting with the next revision amd will be able to put out 2.6-3GHz processors pretty easily (not talking about FX)

I'll back you up on how you like Dothan and dislike Netburst.

Last thing I saw said at best AMD is 6 months behind Intel on 65nm and at worse, 18 months behind Intel, I'd bet on splitting that difference to one year. AMD will first move to nothing more than a 65nm K8 (no matter what name its given) and then to K10, they didn't use K9 (Dog) for obvious reasons.

Donnie27
 
well, when AMD's 90nm processes outperform the 65nm processes from Intel.. Thats saying something, isnt it? Its not like AMD needs to hurry into the 65nm, when its 90nm processes keep up with its competitors 65nms..
 
sabrewolf732 said:
I agree, I CAN tell differances between cpu speeds in games. For example my old clawhammer at stock 1.8 vs 2.4 in counter strike source. The differance was tangible, and it wasn't the placebo effect either. Sometimes I would reset my bios and forget to set the htt bus so that the cpu would be 2.4, I would fire up UT or CSS and right away I would notice the differance and I would have to restart :p

Yep. I changed from dual Opteron 246's to dual 254's and I saw a WORLD of difference. That's basically the difference between a A64 3200+ and an Athlon FX-57. Now when I overclock from 2.8GHz to 3.0GHz I can't honestly tell a difference. Which is why I use Windows XP Pro x64 Edition. NTune doesn't work with it, but the responsiveness of the system and the fact that it will see all of my systems memory, and has NUMA support offset the clock speed increase that I never saw a difference in.
 
Nasgul said:


hehehehe.........speed. You mean to tell us that when you're driving down the road at a 49mph, you'll see the differnce from going 54mph? Unless you don't look at the numbers (speedometer & benchmarks) you will never see the difference, and if anyone is concern with the 5fps, just overclock! and you'll hit that frame cap. Voila! Frame cap reached. OVER!.


it's funny how you completely avoided my post rofl :rolleyes: It's also funny how you make fps analogous to driving in a car ROFLMAO :D Anything drops under 40fps and I notice it right away. btw it's a 12.24% differance in fps, rather large. in fact, you're whole argument of it "doesn't matter, fps are high enough" is pretty dumb, being a hardware enthusiest you should want the best performance you can get. Not say "it's ok it's fast enough", especially only because you have a loyalty to intel.
 
kirbyrj said:
Well, that graph does show some sort of capped limit because all of the AMD processors are within .7 FPS of each other even though they are running 2.2Ghz-2.8Ghz.

I'm willing to bet it's not really the clock speed that matters but the memory latency in that benchmark, the intel processors are close too with the 3.46 getting a couple higher fps with the only real differance being bandwidth.
 
sabrewolf732 said:
I'm willing to bet it's not really the clock speed that matters but the memory latency in that benchmark, the intel processors are close too with the 3.46 getting a couple higher fps with the only real differance being bandwidth.

Yeah, that makes sense of the data there. I wonder what an Intel would be like with an on-die memory controller. I know there are pros/cons for it, but would be interesting to see.
 
kirbyrj said:
Yeah, that makes sense of the data there. I wonder what an Intel would be like with an on-die memory controller. I know there are pros/cons for it, but would be interesting to see.

well with dothan, they don't really need a memory controller :p Just better motherboards :rolleyes: :(
 
RaphaelVinceti said:
well, when AMD's 90nm processes outperform the 65nm processes from Intel.. Thats saying something, isnt it? Its not like AMD needs to hurry into the 65nm, when its 90nm processes keep up with its competitors 65nms..

You sure? From Anand's results I didn't see the 3800+ or Yonah (since those two are clock for clock) win every Benchmark. So how in the hell can you say better? I hope like hell AMD is not sitting back and comfortable while Yes-men and Fans blow smoke up their asses. The main thing to look at with Yonah will be Price, then Price again and then Price some more. Did I meantion the importance of Price? If Yonah@2GHz is priced anywhere in the Ballpark near 3800+, AMD's ass is in trouble.

Notebooks are the fastest growing market. Centrino is Top Dog there=P Yonah is meant for Notebook first, the low power cool running blades and then Desktop as an afterthought.

Yonah will do well not because Yonah blows AMD out the water, but because Intel doesn't have process yield problems. Yonah runs cooler than X2, uses less power than X2, costs Intel less to make than X2, already RAMPPED nicely with high yields, the Marketing has already made Centrino a recognized namebrand.

Donnie27
 
Nasgul said:
You don't start noticing nothing till it's below 24fps, unless you had a Cat's eye transplant. Keep making things up.
Lies, look it up, on a crt monitor people actually can differentiate fps due to lack of blurring available on tv's but not on crt's. I advise you to do research before making idiotic claims and statements. You can ask any gamer if they can see a drop in fps from 60 to 25, see what they say.


Ever heard of overclocking? guess not!, this is not XtremeSystems, OCForums, ExtremeOverclocking Forum? From 3.4ghz to 4.02gh on pure air and stock voltages you've be hitting that "CAP" frame rate. Why bother with a mere 12% difference? Funny how you didn't post pictures from the F.E.A.R. review, try posting this one: F.E.A.R. 16X12.
Perhaps if you had the reading comprehension of a 5 year old you would see where I said FEAR is gpu limited."omg it hits the cap so don't buy the other brand even though it's faster". :rolleyes: Quote me where I told the OP to go buy an a64 system because it's faster, oh wait! He already has one.

If they're high-enough, why bother getting a more expensive system which will be obsolete in year-and-a-half? If I'm getting more and hitting the cap frame rate with a 640 or 650 why bother with a $800+CPU?

I didn't instruct you to get an amd system, Quote me where I did. But advising intel to someone building a new system right now is dumb considering intel p4's lack of performance.In fact, its as if you're advising the OP to go intel simply because intel is intel...

just said it above. I'm a hardware enthusiast not a "must buy expensive to brag about it". If I can play the game with more than enough power, it's good enough. I buy a very inexpensive system an overclock it to what the expensive system specs is or close to.

Like I said, quote me where I told you to buy an a64 system.

And in what way that is wrong?
Sorry but I'm not the "must go along to get along" kind of guy, I'm not impressed at all ONE bit with "time demo" performance benchmarks. I'm loyal to Intel only because (as much as you people hate to not admit it) they're far more reliable and stable than any other platform. Hey, if that pill is too hard to swallow, so be it, just go ahead and look at the # 1 post in this thread. I'll always think of AMD as the Athlon XP but with an Integrated Memory Controler, take the HT and IMC away and what do you have?

So? So what if it is an athlon xp, fact is it performs, and very well. We hate to admit it well, because there is nothing to admit. If you can't get an athlon 64 stable your computer skills are in question.

guess when CONROE comes out, we're all are going to the AMD section and start spaming them, won't we?

How am I spamming? You made incorrect statements, and I corrected them. you think I'm an amd !!!!!! simply because I'm saying your statements are false (in fact many of them have been false ex: intel monopoly, FPS, amd being less stable etc).

NASGUL said:
Pass 40fps is really unnoticeable, at best get what you can afford and for an extra "free" upgrade you can easily overclock either.
ROFL! Just found that, kinda contradicts your 25fps statement huh?

article said:
o what is the answer to how many frames per second should we be looking for? Anything over 60 fps is adequate, 72 fps is maximal (anything over that would be overkill). Framerates cannot drop though from that 72 fps, or we will start to see a degradation in the smoothness of the game. Don't get me wrong, it is not bad to play a game at 30 fps, it is fine, but to get the illusion of reality, you really need a frame rate of 72 fps.
http://www.daniele.ch/school/30vs60/30vs60_3.html

What happened nasgul?
 
Donnie27 said:
Intel killed Netburst as we know it because they couldn't fully correct Heat, Power Draw/Dissipation and not get them to 5GHz as was planned.

Donnie27 said:
Intel couldn't do what they wanted, namely 5GHz so they killed it.

I seem to recall Intel claiming that Netburst would get them to 10GHz
 
needmorecarnitine said:
I seem to recall Intel claiming that Netburst would get them to 10GHz

Intel even said Netburst wouldn't reach 5GHz, that made 10GHz MOOT. So they killed it.

Donnie27
 
Donnie27 said:
Intel even said Netburst wouldn't reach 5GHz, that made 10GHz MOOT. So they killed it.

Donnie27

Yea we know that but we also know that Intel was proclaiming that IT WOULD scale to 10GHz back when netburst was new
 
needmorecarnitine said:
Yea we know that but we also know that Intel was proclaiming that IT WOULD scale to 10GHz back when netburst was new

Yes, and they estimated Tejas would make it to 7GHz. At the time they weren't really paying attention to temperatures, I guess.
 
needmorecarnitine said:
Yea we know that but we also know that Intel was proclaiming that IT WOULD scale to 10GHz back when netburst was new

Hey, they were wrong! Only a fool thinks their right all the time.

Donnie27
 
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