AMD starting maunufacture of 65nm cpu's

[Whizzard9992]

Until I see AMD really whomp Intel, I plan on staying with my Wintel setups. Technology's always been a game of leapfrog, so you really can't jump ship every time a new benchmark comes out.

No, but you'd have to be blind to have missed that AMD has really been whomping Intel for over a year now...

SSShhhhhhhhhhh..... Over a year's benchmarks and repeated beatings doesn't constitute a whomping. (It's more like manslaughter). That's not the point I recently built a 2.4 scottie on a 955X, knowing I was going to knock out the proc with a new dual-core presler in a year or so. Risky, I know, but Intel dind't let me down. The preslers seem solid so far. Apart from lack of SLI, it's a solid system.

There's no reason not to jump ship when you're starting over from scratch. What works best is what works best, regardless of who makes it.

I disagree somewhat. When you buy a platform, you're married to that platform. Let's say I get a Presler now on a 975X chipset. Intel's been pretty good about keeping their chipsets forward-compatable. Even with AMD's chips nailing the P4, Intel is still a solid investment, and when (erm, if) Intel jumps ahead, I won't need to build a new system to take advantage of it. I can just drop a new chip in and have the latest-greatest system. Even if Intel doesn't make a quantum leap beyond AMD, I know that I've got a clear, inexpensive upgrade path that I trust.

Now that's assuming they don't make some screwy pin changes or major IO changes. PCIe should be around for a few more years (I Hope), but then again, we never thought we'd need to get rid of AGP 8x for a while, either.

It's all a risk, but Intel's been good to me, and I'm not bailing for a small performance boost that may be negated anyway by the next-gen chips.

 

[Whizzard9992]

P.S. I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a stubborn Intel Nazi. I know AMD's been whomping Intel. I'm know I'm scammering for excuses as to why I stay with them I'm just keeping the faith

 

[slvr_phoenix]

I disagree somewhat. When you buy a platform, you're married to that platform. Let's say I get a Presler now on a 975X chipset. Intel's been pretty good about keeping their chipsets forward-compatable. Even with AMD's chips nailing the P4, Intel is still a solid investment, and when (erm, if) Intel jumps ahead, I won't need to build a new system to take advantage of it. I can just drop a new chip in and have the latest-greatest system. Even if Intel doesn't make a quantum leap beyond AMD, I know that I've got a clear, inexpensive upgrade path that I trust.

Yeah, but you get pretty much the same upgrade options either way. Unless you're buying the absolute latest chip on a socket that's about to be tossed anyway...