AMD doesn't suck?

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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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Cakedaddy wrote: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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GORDON wrote: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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