AMD Pokes at Intel With Valentine's Day Gifts

[sinfulpotato]

[citation][nom]v4nquish[/nom]Are you serious? What games are you playing? Farmville?[/citation]

To be honest going from a Athlon II x2 to a i7 was the biggest waste of money I have ever done. Sure that little number in the corner of the screen went up a little, but I couldn't notice a damn thing.

A GPU upgrade would have been a better choice, if I could go back I would in a heart beat.

 

[jojoman88]

If I had a Sandy MB,I would just add a SATA 2.0 card into my unused PCIe 1X or 4X slot an be done with it already.I'm not going to use all of them anyway,plus there will be no down time. It would be worth the money to not take it all apart,ship it and wait for return. Just add the card and don't use the onboard SATA 2.0 ports. I know so people need more than that,but for a lot of people that would do the trick. Maybe Intel should offer to buy/pay for the SATA card also.

 

[falchard]

[citation][nom]chaoski[/nom]Are you on Mars or something? Show us, please prove it!!!I posted a benchmark comparison of i2500 vs 1090T (same price) and i2500 OWNS it on EVERYTHING. Heck like I said before, LAST GENERATION Intel CPU > anything AMD has out there (especially gaming)[/citation]

Toms benchmarks on the release of Sandy Bridge show the 1100T performing above the Sandy Bridge in multi-threaded apps. Obviously when buying a processor you have to research what apps you will use with the processor. If you need something with a bit of brute force, chances are its multi-threaded making the Thuban a better buy.

 

[chaoski]

[citation][nom]falchard[/nom]Toms benchmarks on the release of Sandy Bridge show the 1100T performing above the Sandy Bridge in multi-threaded apps. Obviously when buying a processor you have to research what apps you will use with the processor. If you need something with a bit of brute force, chances are its multi-threaded making the Thuban a better buy.[/citation]

show the proof...here is mine AGAIN

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=203

 

[chaoski]

[citation][nom]jojoman88[/nom]If I had a Sandy MB,I would just add a SATA 2.0 card into my unused PCIe 1X or 4X slot an be done with it already.I'm not going to use all of them anyway,plus there will be no down time. It would be worth the money to not take it all apart,ship it and wait for return. Just add the card and don't use the onboard SATA 2.0 ports. I know so people need more than that,but for a lot of people that would do the trick. Maybe Intel should offer to buy/pay for the SATA card also.[/citation]

If you didn't upgrade your CPU your AMD would've been a HUGE bottleneck on ANY GPU beyond 5770 (even that).

 

[chaoski]

[citation][nom]alextheblue[/nom]No, he's right. While it may not net you uberleet framerates, $100 will get you an E6800 clocked at 3.33, or an Athlon II X3 455 at 3.3Ghz. The E6800 is right at $100, and the 455 is $90. Both are adequate, especially if you're reducing your CPU budget in order to get a better GPU!If you're an overclocker on a budget, even better. The E6800 probably has some decent headroom, and the X3 will probably have a free core hiding under the hood.[/citation]

Those CPUs will bottleneck better GPUs. My E8400 (which is currently $180) is a bottleneck in most newer games. So your GPU beyond 460 would be worthless...

 

[renz496]

I'm not sure the 6970 was supposed to directly compete with the 580. There's a rather sizeable price difference for a start.

no they're not. AMD Radeon 6900 series competes with GTX480 and GTX470 in the first place. you can confirm that via their product positioning chart.

That S.W.A.T video was about the 480GTX and it's heat output.. If your going to post comments make sure your facts are relevant...

lol. i know that. but when you mock your rival like that you better have something that will dominate your rival product in every expect. people may not agree with me but i'm free to post my own opinion regarding this matter.

 

[Guest]

proud of my AMD phenom II 65 BE, around $150 from where I'm from and it's a lot better than anything intel has at its price point(and a bit higher as well). Haven't had any bottleneck either in my games, maxing it all out 1920x1080 with >50~ framerates so I'm pretty proud of it so far... honestly, procs aren't as important in games...

though yes.. AMD is losing badly so far, they really should've just pushed their bulldozer earlier.. but still, it's this sort of friendly competition that prevents monopoly and benefits consumers...

Intel may > AMD but without AMD, intel would literally have every excuse to steal your money and slack with R&D... if you don't like AMD products, at least thank AMD for keeping intel competetive

And it's just a joke anyway, no need to take it so personally. my 2 cents

 

[Guest]

AMD sux? tell me then why we do not see anymore IA64?and only AMD64? ha? Where are the "BIIIIIIGGG"Itaniums? ha? No need ofc to turn back to the past when AMD fixed the Intel;s MMX bugs..........When AMD broke the 1Ghz limit at cpu's...........

 

[Guest]

BRAVO TO INTEL, WHICH RECALLED THE CHIPSET CITING THEY CARE ABOUT THERE USERS, NOW THE CHIPSETS IS BACK, I LOVE THE PERFORMANCE OF H67, ITS REALLY FANTASTIC, COME ON AMD GEAR UP BUDDY WHATS TAKING YOU SO LONG.