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    Amd?

    My mate was slagging AMD off earlier today. He kept saying that Intel are gods etc. for making C2D. It pisses me off. What would be the point in making a processor thats faster than core 2? Only enthusiasts would buy it unless AMD spent one HELL of a lot on advertising. I think AMD are biding their time until we actually NEED more power or until we need something completely different. Otherwise AMD and Intel will continue their endless battle, constantly making more and more powerful processors until we're all using coolers like the one Hexus reviewed today. Am I right?
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    The general public don't need processors faster than a 486.

    I'm afraid my opinion is with your mate to some extent. Intel have a faster processor that runs cooler and uses less power. AMD would produce something better if they could, no way would they bide their time and let Intel make all the money at their expense.

    The point about coolers is particularly wrong - AMD sucessfully gained market share for having a cooler processor than netburst - intel have hit back with the core 2 duo. Not only are processors getting faster, but power and heat is becoming a selling point as well. New processors now run much cooler than bartons and netbursts.
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    If it were as simple as AMD making a better CPU they would have.

    It took Intel eons to comfortably beat off AMD (you could argue AMD was better all round all the way back to the first Athlon).

    AMD are trying so hard they're pushing QuadFX, which isn't looking too good at the moment, but will apparently be much improved when tested in Vista. That's how much they want to beat Intel, yet they're grasping at straws using 2 completely separate sockets.

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    I wish you were right. The truth is, Intel finally got the edge over AMD with the C2D CPUs which as well as outperform AMDs current offerings, but also run relatively cool as well.

    As for speed/power of the CPUs, to be honest a single core AMD CPU will run a decent system admirably at the moment. Once Vista becomes common this will probably change significantly. Every MS OS release and subsequent significant service pack adds additional bloatware which slows everything down.

    For example, at work I used to use a 2.8 P4 (S478 version). It initially came with XP SP1. Since adding SP2 and other corporate security stuff, it was grinding to a halt. I now use a P4 notebook running a mobile processor @ 1700 or something like that. Believe it or not, it actually outperforms the old machine by quite a margin.

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    But the quad core AMDs are only slightly slower than the Intels yet they are half the price.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    The point about coolers is particularly wrong
    What I meant was that they will keep bringing out the same processor with a higher clock speed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BlindMelon7 View Post
    But the quad core AMDs are only slightly slower than the Intels yet they are half the price.
    I must be out of date already. Are you saying that you can get an quad core AMD for half the price of the excellent c2d 6600?

    What I meant was that they will keep bringing out the same processor with a higher clock speed.
    I don't think they will, for the reasons I mentioned.

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    My tuppence...

    AMD and Intel are both in this game to make money, not excellent processors.

    AMD had almost no market share, and changed that by producing an excellent processor, which was nice for us

    Only at the point that Intel's market share was dropping like a stone did it finally put it's internal company politics aside and bother making an even better processor than AMD. This is better for us

    Note that technically there was nothing to stop Intel making a core2 duo years ago. If they had enough market share, why would they bother?

    AMD had been gently improving their CPU to try and keep a slight lead. They could have made huge advances, but that costs money that comes out of profits.

    The answer to Core2 is Barcelona, and it sounds like that chip is already slowly making it's way down the production lines at the fabs. That takes a few months, so it will be out in the summer. Some of those improvements were hard, but I think some of them just took some more silicon which hurts profits so only now it is totally necessary have they added SSE units etc.

    To re-iterate, these processors get better if it helps the profits of the companies that make them. If there was no competition, I have no doubt Intel would still be making 486 chips and telling us we are lucky to have them.

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    Interesting article, but the Gartner droid quoted has his head up his posterior; the server market is already ready for quad cores, and has been ever since MS confirmed their "we license by socket, not core" approach. The last server I bought was a Clovertowned Poweredge 2950, purely because I could buy a couple of processor licenses for SQL Server and put 8 cores to work on it. If AMD had beaten Intel to market w/quad core, I'd probably have gone with that; we have a 2xDC Opteron box running Exchange at the moment, which does a sterling job, but there simply was not a competing processor available from AMD at the time..

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    With love and many thanks,

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    But...you need two of 'em, in a QuadFX board. To get my 8 cores, I'd need 4 (each requiring a SQL processor license at 3 grand a pop...) which you can't do anyway. Effectively, I'd need 4 DC Opterons in a four-way server. Ulp.

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    Your mate is a looser.

    We could of said the same thing about the AMD 64, when it first came out.

    AMD ass raped Intel for 3 years with the K8.

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    Horses for courses?

    4 DC opterons is a hell of a lot of memory (and PCIe) bandwidth, but for a lot of money too!

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    True; and as I say, we already use a dual Opty for Exchange - I definitely want AMD to come back with a competitive genuine quad-core architecture, but QuadFX isn't it. At best, it's a proving ground, at worst a poor stop-gap. I'm aware of the restrictions regarding memory bandwidth and the weaknesses of the current "almost quad-core" Xeons, but bluntly, they still provide a lot of bang per buck.

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    amd's not going to linger too much on multiple core CPU's... writing software to utilize those extra CPU's are a pain in the ass. Right now, hardware is eons beyond current softwares available. THey are not being used 100% efficient all the time. Although Multi core cpu's seem to be the way of the future... we will never know, AMD has a different plan.. and its not going to be multicore in 2008 i suppose... their planning on something entirely different.

    Again, in the end its all about having what you need. Right now C2D is whipping AMD's ass.. but AMD is still there.. thats the point, and they will continue to improve. I hate fanboys, in a market such as this its better to have rivalry... where companies struggle to stay on top of each other... it benefits us consumers... look at how microsoft monopolises the market... =/ not good. Microsoft dictates their standards, because no other company challenges them... Mac, is just like a little ant...

    In the end we buy the products that have an advantage at current times.. not because your a fan of it - that makes you a dumb idiot who doesnt care about the quality of the product you get... as long as its from your oh so powerful idol company

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