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Now these points of data make a beautiful... uh... wait a sec...
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> Now these points of data make a beautiful... uh... wait a sec...
Dude, I'd go for that 175 quid Intel that gets 2700 passmarks or whatever
;-) Which one is that btw?
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scott wrote:
>> Now these points of data make a beautiful... uh... wait a sec...
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> Dude, I'd go for that 175 quid Intel that gets 2700 passmarks or
> whatever ;-) Which one is that btw?
from ebuyer.com for in-stock CPUs. I just did the ones they had on their
front page. (But only the retail-boxed, no OEMs.)
And yeah - I think possibly I need to add a few more data points here
before any meaningful conclusions can be drawn.
[What I was *expecting* to see was one curve for Intel, and another one
way to the right for AMD. But that doesn't appear to be the case...]
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Hmm. PassMark scores from one website, price information from another...
Is there any way I could automate the data gathering and graphing
process? :-D
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
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> [What I was *expecting* to see was one curve for Intel, and another one
> way to the right for AMD. But that doesn't appear to be the case...]
AMD's stuff isn't as good as it used to be. From what I've heard, they're
having some issues with their quad cores.
My next CPU will be an intel, for the first time since the P3.
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> AMD's stuff isn't as good as it used to be. From what I've heard, they're
> having some issues with their quad cores.
> My next CPU will be an intel, for the first time since the P3.
What I heard is this:
1. AMD currently don't have anything that can match the speed of Intel.
2. In order to prevent certain financial demise, AMD are *slashing* the
prices of all their products.
3. As a result, many AMD chips are extremely cheap while not actually
being all that slow - in other words, you get a lot for your money.
I was expecting to see one price/performance curve for Intel, and
another one further to the right for AMD (but not going up as high).
However, if anything, the data I have indicates that in
price/performance terms, they're both roughly equal at the moment...
I've also been hearing negative things about their 4-core Phenom chips.
Apparently they were meant to be AMD's reply to Intel, but when the
benchmarks were done, it was found that actually AMD is still lagging
miles behind (despite optimistic marketing by AMD). I also hear there
are QC issues with Phenom that they're still trying to sort out. Hmm.
If I had the money, I'd probably go with Intel too. But AMD is
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"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> If I had the money, I'd probably go with Intel too. But AMD is
Sure it's cheaper, but you could end up needing to upgrade sooner.
I got a fairly nice bonus this year, so I'm buying high-end. Going for the
Intel quad 2.66. Retails here for about R4500
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Gail Shaw wrote:
>> If I had the money, I'd probably go with Intel too. But AMD is
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> Sure it's cheaper, but you could end up needing to upgrade sooner.
Well, when I think about upgrades, I think "is this faster than what I
have now?" If it's "lots" faster, it's worth it [depending on price,
obviously]. If it isn't, don't bother...
> I got a fairly nice bonus this year, so I'm buying high-end. Going for the
> Intel quad 2.66. Retails here for about R4500
Nice.
I've vaugely debating a Mac of some kind. [Which will obviously contain
some kind of Intel chip.] But who knows?
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Invisible wrote:
> Hmm. PassMark scores from one website, price information from another...
> Is there any way I could automate the data gathering and graphing
> process? :-D
Well, I've thrown something together that allows me to copy & paste a
lump of HTML from
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/
and gives me a nice clean CSV file. Now, what to do about the price list...
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As you can see, there is *definitely* something in it...
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