ZeroBarrier
[H]ard|Gawd
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Actually it is fear. For far too long Intels performance advantage made it easy for the arrogant and unreasonable to bash a weaker AMD and act as if they were cunning and intelligent in doing so. But now we have a very competitive AMD and in all likelihood an AMD that can easily entice previous Intel owners. They were sweating bullets at the announcements of Threadripper and Epyc. Threadripper simply has quite an advantage with superior number of PCI-e lanes, and to some degree yet unknown soldered chips-to-heatspreaders which may affect max clocks, although 4.0ghz will likely be AMDs max no matter the temp, and quad-channel ram. Those same positives were quite welcome in many a discussion when it benefitted Intels superiority,(soldered heatspreaders excluded) but now that they lie with AMD they are suddenly meaningless. Not sure how they plan to attack Epyc but they will in some asinine fashion.
The take away here is that for the first time in a while we consumers have a multitude of choices and AMD happens to be a better choice in some circumstances, and as good a choice as Intel in many others. Threadripper looks real good against whatever Intel has, now we just need prices announced across the board to have a better idea of how this may play out.
I'm fine with people disagreeing and posting so say someone is wrong when actual proof or reasoning is given; but to claim "fear" and then say some really (and I apologize in advance for using such a laymen term, but I just can't find anything more apropiate at the moment) idiotic as what you've posted in the first sentences of your post, that's something that I just can't accept.
Regardless of what anyone thinks about the reasoning of the price cuts; there just is absolutely no denying that AMD is price cutting a product that has yet to see a full fucking quarter. That doesn't speak very highly no matter how you cut it.