yeah it was the Q6600, it appeals to quite a few people i think, AMD fanbois. People who are not interested in overclocking... i actually rate the 9850, there are alot of reviews about on the net about being not worth it. But alot of these reviews are for proper hardcore comp people. I am one of them, yes i could right a similiar review, but i also see it from the other point of view. My clients wont or very unlikely to want to overclock, i personally find the 9850 just as good as the equivalent intel chips and any superiority the intel chips have over it are so tiny you hardly notice.
it is also not the point that amd and intel cpus might perform the same what about 45nm? AMD there yet? nope! so intel is winning
True, i suppose the tides will turn at some point they always do. Or maybe not, with the loses AMD/ATi are making.
I hope that AMD doesn't vanish because if Intel has no competition, they won't make any new chips and will only sell the Extreme Editions since ppl will not have another choice. So the rival company helps consumers too.
True, i can't see amd folding noway. They do produce good products, just got a bit lost lately. One copany or the other always invents new technology before the other, it's inevitable, AMD just need to pull their finger out and get their before Intel.... Now the AMD X3 what where they thinking!!! lol.
I doubt they'll vanish but there's a good chance they'll get bought out. They're not really doing any better financially - and it's easy to see why if I'm honest. All that's keeping them in play I expect are the GPUs for the Wii and Xbox 360.
Who would buy them out though, Microsoft? we all know how they liek to dominate everything. IBM? maybe not, they make there own CPU's (i think) that i read somewhere are better than Intel chips.
That's the opposite of what I read. Last time I checked, IBM were in dire need of something decent, and they're not poor...
Yeah, i think they only time we see IBM in the mainstream is when we are checkouts and they make the tills. of they have the business network side that is huge. They are and incredibly well off company, and maybe AMD would be a good buy for them and they would probably turn it around. But i dont see AMD being sold to be honest.
btw how is that e4500 do you overclock at all? i was thinking of building a file server and need a good cheap chip... of course i wont overclock mine as redundancy is important in a file server but just wondering how are the new dual core 65nm celerons? i think they sell for 50 bucks which is very good for a dual core
hmm, ill see if i can find the article about IBM chips. I wonder if there actually would ever be a company that will come out wiht a better chip than Intel or AMD.
Xbox 360 has an IBM CPU in it. The Cell architecture has links to IBM CPUs. Apples used IBM CPUs until a little while back when they moved to Intel.
didnt know that since i have never had an Apple computer and i have never had any kind of "gaming console" either.
