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    [SOLVED] I want to go AMD but friends are telling me intel is better

    I couldn't agree more. Have 5x Ryzen 7 systems running science apps and they're crazy fast compared to anything I've used previously (and that's a lot of systems). AMD is currently ahead of Intel in both price and overall performance and pulling away. Go with AMD and spend the savings on a...
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    MSI CEO Dishes on Intel Shortage, AMD Growth, Taking Share from Apple

    I just built 5 Ryzen 7 machines for scientific computing. Four of them have MSI X470 motherboards. I think I'll be re-evaluating for my continuing builds after listening to "Chairman" Chiang. Not happy. It sounds like Intel is playing monopoly games once again.
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    Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti Reportedly Up To 19 Percent Faster than GTX 1060

    Name games as usual. RTX was a nonevent. Upping the GTX 1060 core count by 20% to get a 19% performance increase? Really? I'm underwhelmed to say the least. What the heck is 1660, and then Ti? Ti used to mean something. Now it just looks like NVidia has run out of innovation and is name...
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    The Tom's Hardware Intel CEO Draft: Who Should Lead Team Blue?

    Ouch, somehow having to retrieve my password turned into a double post. Seriously, I hope they don't go after Lisa Su. She's the medicine that AMD has needed for decades. 7nm, superior scalability and the renewed spirit of innovation is the sauce that gives AMD a leg up at this time. It's...
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    The Tom's Hardware Intel CEO Draft: Who Should Lead Team Blue?

    How about Trump, Intel would be bankrupt by 2020. But they'd have a "big, beautiful wall" to keep those AMD heathens out. ;-)
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    The Tom's Hardware Intel CEO Draft: Who Should Lead Team Blue?

    Intel should hire Trump. They'd be bankrupt in a year, but they'd probably have a "beautiful, big wall" to keep AMD out. ;-)