Hey everybody....
Know I just met a "Intel" person today. Intel person, meaning no "AMD on my table, sir!!" He was explaining to me the reason why they (his company) did not build machines with AMD processors.
The answer was, AMD has to many errors and does not run all programs, well is not guaranteed to run all programs anyways.
Also he said that overclocking was useless, now that he knew how processors work. And AMD was a "overclocking" processor. Well the reason for this, he said, was that there is a error checking circuit, that checked if an operations worked out or not and by overclocking, errors became more often and therefor take longer time to finish instructions. He gave me an exemple: If you overclock a processor 20%, then you would maybe get 25% error and therefor actually get 5% drop in performance.
In short, I don't buy this. It doesn't seem to fit with Tom's benchmarks and.. well I have never heard this before...
Well what is your opinion, and if you really know your stuff, is there anything to this??
Oskar
Know I just met a "Intel" person today. Intel person, meaning no "AMD on my table, sir!!" He was explaining to me the reason why they (his company) did not build machines with AMD processors.
The answer was, AMD has to many errors and does not run all programs, well is not guaranteed to run all programs anyways.
Also he said that overclocking was useless, now that he knew how processors work. And AMD was a "overclocking" processor. Well the reason for this, he said, was that there is a error checking circuit, that checked if an operations worked out or not and by overclocking, errors became more often and therefor take longer time to finish instructions. He gave me an exemple: If you overclock a processor 20%, then you would maybe get 25% error and therefor actually get 5% drop in performance.
In short, I don't buy this. It doesn't seem to fit with Tom's benchmarks and.. well I have never heard this before...
Well what is your opinion, and if you really know your stuff, is there anything to this??
Oskar