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Six core chips very price competitive with Intel

For once.

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They've always been price competative. . . they were just behind in performance!
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Almost performance competitive, but from the price-performance perspective, this is the best I've seen from them in a long time.

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They've always been price competative. . . they were just behind in performance!

Not always, but recently, yeah.  Still kind of annoyed I had to buy an Intel chip in the new machine.

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A few years ago they had about 18 months where they were beating Intel on the price/performance curve.  Then Intel dropped prices on their Core 2 chips, and AMD has been playing catch up... until now?

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A few years ago they had about 18 months where they were beating Intel on the price/performance curve.  Then Intel dropped prices on their Core 2 chips, and AMD has been playing catch up... until now?

Far as I can tell.

EDIT : My Intel hyper-threaded quad core is doing just fine.

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The current machine I am on is a Core 2 Quad, and works great.  Was the price/performance leader for a good 6 months.  Still just fine, almost 2 years later.  Of course I still haven't tried to play Crysis on it.

Chip is the Q6600, if memory serves, which it probably doesn't.

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I still wouldn't buy an AMD laptop chip, but it looks like I would consider them for a desktop/home server now.

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