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[citation][nom]ashinms[/nom]Not good. At least with ARM, several different companies with licenses instead of one company that will only keep prices low long enough to get a stranglehold on the market and then start jacking prices up.[/citation]
AMD, in general terms, doesn't compete well with Intel and hasn't for some time, yet Intel's prices generally aren't bad.
[citation][nom]Pherule[/nom]You are forgetting that Sandy and Ivy Bridge dual core Pentiums are actually worth something. The performance increased gained by going from SB/IB Pentium to i3 is negligible, as the only real thing you get is hyper-threading, which is generally useless. With the SB/IB Pentiums you are basically getting a dual-core i5 with slightly lower clocks. It is still a really powerful CPU, and certainly better than the old Core2Duo's.[/citation]
HTT is a lot more helpful than you give it credit for. It can mean a 25-35% improvement in many workloads. A lot of CPU-limited games can show significant differences between i3s and the top Pentiums.
AMD, in general terms, doesn't compete well with Intel and hasn't for some time, yet Intel's prices generally aren't bad.
[citation][nom]Pherule[/nom]You are forgetting that Sandy and Ivy Bridge dual core Pentiums are actually worth something. The performance increased gained by going from SB/IB Pentium to i3 is negligible, as the only real thing you get is hyper-threading, which is generally useless. With the SB/IB Pentiums you are basically getting a dual-core i5 with slightly lower clocks. It is still a really powerful CPU, and certainly better than the old Core2Duo's.[/citation]
HTT is a lot more helpful than you give it credit for. It can mean a 25-35% improvement in many workloads. A lot of CPU-limited games can show significant differences between i3s and the top Pentiums.
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