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I can assure everything that they know what you meant when you said application specific games and just pulling a circle jerk because they thought they had something to pick at.

You gotta watch out for the AMD Lemmings here, they pack up like wolves when they smell blood.

I highly doubt any of them own or used the hardware they are even trying to debate about on most threads.

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When Intel saw the leakage current (spelled heat) with Prescott, they should have shifted Northwood to 90 nano.
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Really is that so I guess your BA in IC design and lithography etching manufacturing gives you great insight why a multi billion dollar company that has people that have more education than you have years under you belt would consider moving the Northwood to 0.09u.

The Prescott is the real alternative for increased clock speeds, dual cores, IA-64 extensions, x86-64 emulation (it's crap anyways so who cares if they emulate it. Cant build no game on 16 64bit general registers.)

Also AMD fan boy Intel isn’t pushing anything down your throat. Unless you are talking about your boyfriend then by all means keep it in the other section.

The A64 kicks ass in games you jackass. Sorry, sorry. "Stay calm." Ok, all I ask is for you to read. Just read. I don't know HOW you came up with that ridiculous claim, but it definitely wasn't from an acclaimed website.
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Ho-ho let me say it then A64's 64bit extensions are useless and pointless. The technology isn’t even enough to push on 64bit apps. 16 register??? What is this the 80's you can’t build decent software technology off so little? At best this crap is going to go the way of MMX, SSE, SSE2, and SSE3 a simple extension. Oh did I mention they seem to have the same amount of registers as well.

Get over it buddy the technology is a mid ground for bigger and better technologies and no hybrid chip is going to be doing that.

The Athlon64 is a new innovation, just wait 6 months to a year when the software and patches for 64bit is here. 32bit has been around for a hell of a long time, just imagine what the Athlon64 will be capable of in the future.
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Oh goodie lets have hybrid code oh oh I sure hope they add some 16bit code in those patches I really love to memory leaks, perhaps some stop errors too. If you can't figure it out Windows 95 is all I have to say.

If you want a quick fix, buy a Prescott, but I see this chip going nowhere.
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Oh look at the AMD dearest comrade boy frothing at the mouth *throws A64* go get it boy.

ok i have to comment on this now. u say the a64 kicks ass in games. does it beat a 3ghz prescott at 1600x1200 in games?? i think that would be no. you're limited by your gpu anyway so as long as you have something descent its the same speed.
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Who gives a [-peep-] if it beats it at 1600x1200 last I checked for the last 10+ years almost every game out there has been static meshed. Increased resolution does not increase polygon count just pixel count. So why the hell do they benchmark CPU’s at such a resolution? Don’t know and don’t care game benchmarks aren’t something I use to base a purchase on.

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this is quite possibly the funniest thread ever. I would waste my time putting you newbs all straight, but some of the older / wiser forum members are doing so already.

Go Xeon, go Phail etc

Carry on! lol

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Sheesh and I thought Ford Vs. Chevy was bad!!!! This makes that dust up look positively tame. Reminds me when Ford was selling safety and Chevy was selling horsepower. Horsepower won until people realized horsepower in an unsafe car meant... death or dismemberment. Fightin' is in rounds. This round's AMD's. Intel's got too much pride and moola not to hit back. They'll be fighting till the apocalypse.

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>The Prescott is the real alternative for increased clock
>speeds

Oh you still believe the 10 GHz fabble, don't you ? Intel has learned, but you apparently haven't..

>Ho-ho let me say it then A64's 64bit extensions are useless
>and pointless.

Yeah indeed. As pointless as 32 bit extentions once where, and even more pointless as 16 bit extentions. Its all the developpers that gotten lazy, 1 MB adress space should be plenty for anything really... after all, there have been 16 bit games, browsers and TPC/IP stacks for win 3.x. Who needs 32 bit ? Its a marketing scam..

> The technology isn’t even enough to push on 64bit apps

LOL.. the single biggest benefactor of 64 bit address space is the OS. A 64 bit OS doubles your 32 bit application address space (and extends it to nearly infinity for 64 bit ones), solves kernel mapping issues with for instance videocards >512 MB. Obviously, there are no 64 bit OS's available or in the works are there ? Just two dozen Linux distro's, BSD's, Windows and Solaris. I guess that is nothing.. Can you name one relevant x86 OS that is not (being) ported ? OS/2 is the only one I can think off, with a market share of maybe 0.001%.

>At best this crap is going to go the way of MMX, SSE, SSE2,
>and SSE3 a simple extension. Oh did I mention they seem to
>have the same amount of registers as well.

You're obsessed with the addition of a few GPRs, which has nothing to do with the essence of extending the ISA. And if you think the number of SSE registers has anything to do with this, let me point you to the fact that AMD64 is a longer acronym than SSEx, and much longer than MMX, so surely its better. EM64T is just as long btw, so obviously intel recognizes its importantness too. Microsoft leads the pack with their 'x86 extended systems' talk, that is WAY longer than MMX. "hyperthreading" comes close though, I'll grant you that.

>Get over it buddy the technology is a mid ground for bigger
>and better technologies and no hybrid chip is going to be
>doing that.

doing what ?

>Don’t know and don’t care game benchmarks aren’t something
>I use to base a purchase on.

Nah, why would you.. after all your 286 with win 3.x is still serving you right, no ? Runs Leasure Suit Larry and Donkey Kong just fine.

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>1) Firt came the Presshot
>2) Now comes the dodgy 775 socket

Ahem no..

1) first came the 8088, mother of all problems
2) then came the buggy 286
3) then came the 462 iAXP catastrophy, followed on by the i860 disaster
4) then came FDIV infected Pentium 60/66
5) All hail Convington (I think), the cacheless celeron dud
6) then came the dodgy Pentium 1.13 GHz
7) along came Rambus and the 820 caminogate
8) welcome the willamette dud, and the willamette + SDRAM speed deamons
9) meanwhile the Merced trainwreck unfolded
10) Prescott breaks all AMD records when it comes to redefining the meaning of the word "hot"
11) S775... i820 +RDRAM all over again (much more expensive, new acrynoms, new memory, no extra performance)

I'm sure I missed a few historical moments though, feel free to add, but Prescott wasn't the first sign on the wall :)

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And yet despite all of this, Intel is still the market leader.

Chaps your ass, doesn't it? :wink:

The point is, if you're Intel, you can afford to make mistakes. If you're AMD, mistakes will be much more costly. Things will begin to change eventually, but for now Intel can still afford to screw up royally.

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Once again back to this Intel, AMD, debate:

Have you ever wondered what instruction set in Windows64, Intel and AMD are going to use?

Well, lets see...... Considering the AMD64 is the only true desktop 64bit chip Microsoft has decided
to use AMD's instruction sets!!

"Well, well, well........ so it seems that Microsoft, arguably one of the biggest bussinesses in the world
is happy using AMD's instruction sets, "And I thought there was no confidence in AMD....."

Looks like Intel is going to have to adopt AMD's programming.......... Damn....... wait.......Screw Intel.

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Intel doesn't HAVE to do ANYTHING. They don't even have to 'catch up' to AMD in terms of technology... that's what being a market leader gets you. The comfort of doing things your way when you want to do them. Once Intel starts seeing market share and revenues slip, they will be compelled to try and overtake AMD... right now they're just too comfortable.

<font color=red> If you design software that is fool-proof, only a fool will want to use it. </font color=red>
 
> right now they're just too comfortable.

Yeah, so comfortable their stock has lost <A HREF="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=6m&s=INTC&l=off&z=m&q=l&c=" target="_new"> <b>~40% of its value in just 6 months</b></A>. Maybe its time they started doing something again ?

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Oh you still believe the 10 GHz fabble, don't you ? Intel has learned, but you apparently haven't.
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Again do you have any evidence that says the Net Burst architecture won’t be able to reach 10 GHz? With future micron shrinks in the future and better more efficient designs I can't dare say Intel won’t be able to pull 10 GHz out of the silicon.

Can you name one relevant x86 OS that is not (being) ported ?
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Can you give me the numbers of consumers in possession of 64bit OS, systems, and software?

so surely its better
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Didn't say it was GPR are more programmable and always will be a better solution that specialized registers like SSE2. But the fact is I don’t see either AMD or Intel selling the 32bit to 64bit aspect as well as they did the 16bit to 32bit shift. The market is filled with IA-32 boxes, software companies are cutting back so the validity of a niche product being catered too less, and there is a entire industry dedicated to IA-32 extending it to 64bit might be a good step but you need to convince leery buyers which wont be easy.

doing what ?
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Being a viable technology replacement for IA-32.

Nah, why would you.. after all your 286 with win 3.x is still serving you right
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Sure my 286 hauled ass.

Runs Leasure Suit Larry and Donkey Kong just fine.
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Never played any of those games on that computer actually, I was more of a Wolfenstein Civilizations player if you must know.

Yeah, so comfortable their stock has lost ~40% of its value in just 6 months. Maybe its time they started doing something again ?
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It's done this before and it never spooked Intel executives up.

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AMD suffered the same decline , during the six months.

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But I never saw anyone claim "AMD doesnt need to do ANYTHING"..

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>Wow Amd is up to 22.56? Last Sept it was selling under $15.

Euh, no.. its around $12-13. Still better than the $3.5 it flirted with not so long ago.

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But I never saw anyone claim "AMD doesnt need to do ANYTHING"..
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Well DUH! AMD isn't the market leader, are they? So they must work harder not only to maintain the share they have, but to also GAIN more marketshare.

It's like ATi and nVidia. ATi could have given all the features in their new gen cards that nVidia has in theirs... but they felt they didn't NEED to. They are comfortable in the position they're in right now.

Please explain why a company making billions has to 'catch up' to a company making millions. They don't. Once the fear sets in, I'm sure they will... but AMD hasn't quite put the fear of God into Intel yet.


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>Well DUH! AMD isn't the market leader, are they? So they
>must work harder not only to maintain the share they have,
>but to also GAIN more marketshare.

Not really. intel has just as much pressure to provide shareholder value as AMD or any other company. If you own intel stock, you own the company, and if your stock drops dramatically, you are not happy.. if you are not happy, the companies board is in trouble.

>lease explain why a company making billions has to 'catch
>up' to a company making millions.

A company that makes billions is under pressure to keep making billions. Think Microsoft. It is valued what it is because share holders are used to fat profits, huge margins, nice dividents, etc.. No AMD stockholder expects AMD to outsell intel or something, most intel stockholders expect intel to keep posting those multi billion dollar profits. Intel can not "relax" just because it sits on a pile of money, they have to defend their market share/margins/profits just like any other company. Not that easy either when you have 80+% marketshare and 60+% gross margins.

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