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  Re: should I get Intel this time ?  
From: Severi Salminen
Date: 3 Apr 2008 05:44:32
Message: <47f4b510@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:

> The nice thing as that as a result, AMD's entire product line is now
> priced *very* attractively. (Well they don't want to go under, eh?) But
> if you want serious performance, it has to be Intel, realistically...

Yeah, and I'm glad AMD is still around. When AMD lowers prices, Intel
must react, too. So I just hope AMD can improve their manufacturing
process to answer Intel's lead.

> AMD brought a completely new architecture: Phenom. It looked very
> promising... and then it arrived. And the last I heard, it features a
> whole flood of technological wizardry, yet fails to actually deliver any
> serious performance.

65nm Phenom sucks big time. And they even had that stupid bug which
caused some big problems/performance drop.


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