[citation][nom]ta152h[/nom]CPU+,I disagree, AMD used to make some nice processors when they were cloning, and the K6-III was pretty good too. The K7 and later sucked, but luckily for them, Intel had a lousy design at the time too. Really, if you look at what they did under Jerry Sanders, they had a lot of interesting processors. They were generally one generation behind Intel when they were cloning, and after the 386, but their 286s were better than Intel's, their 386s were better than Intel's, and their 486s were better than Intel's (mainly because Intel wasn't working on them anymore). So, for someone needing previous generation hardware, AMD really made some decent processors at a good price.The K6 was a very nice processor, especially the K6-III. It wasn't as fast as the Pentium II or Pentium III, but it was a lot smaller and used a lot less power. For the size and power of the processor, it was a really strong design. The problem was with the Super 7 chipsets .The K7 was a poor design, but was big enough it didn't matter so much. Despite coming out four years after the Pentium III, and being much larger and using much more power, it struggled with it. Luckily, the Pentium 4 sucked, and AMD was able to keep the K7 alive to this day. That's the problem, it wasn't very good to begin with, and it's now almost 10 years later and AMD is still making K7s, although they have made minor modifications to it. Maybe the Bulldozer will be good, though, they've had enough time to work on a new design, after all. It better be a new design. It's not like the P6 design which was good from the beginning, and thus was a good basis for the processors we see today. The K7 is fundamentally flawed, and they need the new processor to be fundamentally different. But, I'm hopeful they can do it.[/citation]
You should SERIOUSLLY STOP TALKING.
1 AMD's K6III procesor wasn't as good as the PII.
- The K6III CPU MOPPED THE FLOOR WITH THE PII, and all of the PIIIs at the same frequency. Unfortunatly for AMD, they were released to late.
2. AMD's K7 design was bad - AMD's K7 was the first CPU to reach the 1GHz milestone. Also, compared to Intel's SHITTY P4 Williamette, the K7 Thunderbird was faster and most stabe. The only users that experienced problems with these chips bought cheap crappy motherboards, poorly constructed with cheap components and minimalist design. (Jetway, PCChips, ECS Elitegroup) are just some manufacturers that spewd out these toiletpaper quality mainboards. As for "who's got the best CPU", just pin a AMD Barton 3200+ against a 3GHz P4 Northwood. The Soket 478 CPUs were JUST BAD, and Intel suffered because of it.
3. AMD never made any quality products.
- Perhaps you are conveniently forgetting the launch of the AMD 64 series of CPUs? At the time they were the fastest CPUs avadible, and way cheaper than Intel's LGA775 series Chips. (most of them at least). I remember lots Intel owners asking me to build them AMD Opteron or AMD Athlon FX sistems.
Read up before saying stuff like this, it only makes you look stupid.