- May 3, 2006
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Intellectual Honesty Time.....
AMD supporters have always had a little extra grin on their face believing they were doing not only the "right" thing in supporting AMD against the Intel giant, but also the "smart" thing by getting more CPU for the buck...
Remember the 1.x ghz T-Birds vs the early P4s..?
Not only did the TBirds utterly own the Willamettes, but Intel/Rambus were trying to double dip and you also had absurdly expensive RAMBUS versus cheap SDRAM and DDR - Team Green had about a 3 to 1 price advantage back then if you looked at CPU + RAM.
Heck, if you had half a brain, heck ever a quarter brain, the choice was clear.
Intel made a decent comeback with the Northwoods, and AMD was late getting "Hammer" out the door, so when the Northwood C cores with the 800 mhz bus were in the 2.6 to 3.4 ghz range there were indeed quite a bit faster than the Athlons of the day, but bang for ther buck, AMD held in pretty good. - a 2800+ for $150 was a good deal, even if a $250 Northwood 2.8 was 15% faster...
Once Hammer came out, it was pretty ugly for Intel - The Athlon 64 owned the Prescotts, and once things went dual core, it was just ownership "x2".
But then AMD got smug, and maybe a bit greedy....?
An Athlon x2 is a heck of a chip, but the Pentium 9xx series are not all that bad, and at half, or a third of the AMD price that bang for the buck thing starts to look really good for Intel. - and those $1xx D805s that OC to 4 gigs.. AMD has nothing even remotely close...
Now comes Core 2 duo....
Lets call a spade a spade...
Unless you have an aluminum foil hat on your head to protect you from the mind control rays used by the aliens and thus believe that 25 different websites across the planet are all involved in a vast conspiricy to fool the totality of mankind, you know that the Core 2 Due 6600 (2.4 ghz and $314) is overall a bit faster than an FX62. It's just a fact, a rather stunning one, but still a fact.
So if you're smart, and intellectually honest, what do you do...?
The answer is simple, don't pay more than $299 for an FX62... or more than say $199 for a x2 4200+ chip...
Intel has learned it's lesson (we hope) and the 9xx chips, while junk, are now value priced junk, and the Core 2 duos say "we got the message" on the performance and power front.....
It's now time to let the market place reality slap AMD a few times on the side of the head...
Lets all boycott AMD chips till they get their price/performance ratio back in line, and then let's all enjoy a functional market place!
The FX62 is a great chip, and at $299 I'll be happy to buy one. But $699 or even $499 is just wrong...
Go bless Capitalism -
Vote with your dollars and vote wisely!
AMD supporters have always had a little extra grin on their face believing they were doing not only the "right" thing in supporting AMD against the Intel giant, but also the "smart" thing by getting more CPU for the buck...
Remember the 1.x ghz T-Birds vs the early P4s..?
Not only did the TBirds utterly own the Willamettes, but Intel/Rambus were trying to double dip and you also had absurdly expensive RAMBUS versus cheap SDRAM and DDR - Team Green had about a 3 to 1 price advantage back then if you looked at CPU + RAM.
Heck, if you had half a brain, heck ever a quarter brain, the choice was clear.
Intel made a decent comeback with the Northwoods, and AMD was late getting "Hammer" out the door, so when the Northwood C cores with the 800 mhz bus were in the 2.6 to 3.4 ghz range there were indeed quite a bit faster than the Athlons of the day, but bang for ther buck, AMD held in pretty good. - a 2800+ for $150 was a good deal, even if a $250 Northwood 2.8 was 15% faster...
Once Hammer came out, it was pretty ugly for Intel - The Athlon 64 owned the Prescotts, and once things went dual core, it was just ownership "x2".
But then AMD got smug, and maybe a bit greedy....?
An Athlon x2 is a heck of a chip, but the Pentium 9xx series are not all that bad, and at half, or a third of the AMD price that bang for the buck thing starts to look really good for Intel. - and those $1xx D805s that OC to 4 gigs.. AMD has nothing even remotely close...
Now comes Core 2 duo....
Lets call a spade a spade...
Unless you have an aluminum foil hat on your head to protect you from the mind control rays used by the aliens and thus believe that 25 different websites across the planet are all involved in a vast conspiricy to fool the totality of mankind, you know that the Core 2 Due 6600 (2.4 ghz and $314) is overall a bit faster than an FX62. It's just a fact, a rather stunning one, but still a fact.
So if you're smart, and intellectually honest, what do you do...?
The answer is simple, don't pay more than $299 for an FX62... or more than say $199 for a x2 4200+ chip...
Intel has learned it's lesson (we hope) and the 9xx chips, while junk, are now value priced junk, and the Core 2 duos say "we got the message" on the performance and power front.....
It's now time to let the market place reality slap AMD a few times on the side of the head...
Lets all boycott AMD chips till they get their price/performance ratio back in line, and then let's all enjoy a functional market place!
The FX62 is a great chip, and at $299 I'll be happy to buy one. But $699 or even $499 is just wrong...
Go bless Capitalism -
Vote with your dollars and vote wisely!
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