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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> (When I built the system, everybody said that socket 939 was going to be
> the future. Now it appears that actually it's AM2... oh well!)
Yes, and a lot of people were p***ed off about that...
...Chambers
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Chambers wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> (When I built the system, everybody said that socket 939 was going to
>> be the future. Now it appears that actually it's AM2... oh well!)
>
> Yes, and a lot of people were p***ed off about that...
AMD claim to have learned their lesson there. Certainly the new AM2+
chips all work in socket AM2 motherboards (although obviously not as
well as they could do).
But then, I heard people saying things like "this could be the end for
AMD" (referring to the way Phenom pales in comparison to Core 2).
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http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible wrote:
> But then, I heard people saying things like "this could be the end for
> AMD" (referring to the way Phenom pales in comparison to Core 2).
I doubt it. A company the size of AMD doesn't just disappear overnight,
no matter how hard times are.
They've got time to get their act together.
...Chambers
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>> But then, I heard people saying things like "this could be the end for
>> AMD" (referring to the way Phenom pales in comparison to Core 2).
>
> I doubt it. A company the size of AMD doesn't just disappear overnight,
> no matter how hard times are.
>
> They've got time to get their act together.
Heh. I guess "oh noes, this is teh endzors!" just makes better headlines
or something. ;-)
They just bought ATi, so they can't be doing that badly. (Or,
alternatively, ATi were doing *really* badly!)
That put me in a bit of a spot. I always buy AMD CPUs, and I always guy
nVidia GPUs. So AMD buying ATi was a problem. Of course, currently AMD
is nowhere in terms of CPU performance, so if I were to upgrade sometime
soon, I'd have to go with Intel...
(Now and then I get these crazy ideas that I might buy a Mac or
something... This usually wears off when I look at the price list.)
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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