Is nobody at least rooting for AMD?

[TechnologyCoordinator]

Let's get back on topic guys... The subject is about AMD cheerleaders:

 

[scorch]

When AMD was kickin Intels but from about 2002 till 2006 I was wondering if Intel was going to ever come back and they did now the situation is flip flopped, give it a couple of years....

AMD will come back its just a matter of when.

 

[littlebigman]

Your not going to find too many people (if any) who want to see AMD go down, if for no other reason than competative pricing.

On the other hand, all AMD has given us to date are a few poorly conceived graphs touting simulations of CPUs running at estimated clockspeeds and a whole truckload of hype. Very few people like it when someone tries to sell them on something by feeding them BS.

Niether simulations nor rhetoric run applications. AMD needs to produce the product, because since Jul 06, they've produced very little to get excited about.

I agree. Intel obviously has a superior product and unfortunately it looks like it's going to be that way for some time. I can only hope AMD can stay in business so we can keep the innovation coming and the prices down.

I've always bought whoever had the best product. Although, I've almost considered making my next system and AMD system just to support them in some small way, so that in the future when they are on their feet again so I can buy whoever has the best again.

 

[beerandcandy]

penryn is slated to use 3.7 Watts at idle and OC to 4 GHz on air cooling
im not sure if barcy can come even close to that.

 

[exit2dos]

Let's get back on topic guys... The subject is about AMD cheerleaders:

Intel is winning here, too:

At the moment, the only time AMD is keeping up with Intel is when falling in a vacuum.

 

[ro3dog]

There is something about liking AMD and INTEL right nowand its the girls.Now thats some true QUADCORE!!!!

 

[englandr753]

I bought AMD for the 1st time and am using it as my primary system to support AMD. I think AMD will be fine and the only reason for Intel to want AMD around is so they will not be recognized as a monopoly and be forced to split.

I am no fanboy, I have been a long time supporter of Intel when they were flat on their but getting kicked around by AMD. I guess you can say that I support the underdog, and it helps to get a great performing system with decent priced parts too...

 

[boner]

well... im rooting for them Redskins and UVA!!!! (University Of virginia) is where i'm gonna play football as a HB (in two years tho)

 

[lunyone]

well... im rooting for them Redskins and UVA!!!! (University Of virginia) is where i'm gonna play football as a HB (in two years tho)

What does this have to do with supporting AMD? I'm a fan of several professional teams, but that is for a different thread on a different forum.

 

[yomamafor1]

Intel is winning here, too:
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/1674/intelyo5.jpg

At the moment, the only time AMD is keeping up with Intel is when falling in a vacuum.

heck yeh... INTEL SHOWGIRL FTW!!

 

[lunyone]

heck yeh... INTEL SHOWGIRL FTW!!

When your not on a shoestring budget, your going to get nothing but the best, right?

 

[turpit]

Intel is winning here, too:


At the moment, the only time AMD is keeping up with Intel is when falling in a vacuum.

Have to agree with you Exit...there is no contest here...the intel chics are hotter. Guess a bigger PR budget has its advantages. At least AMD could have done something to hide the guts hanging over the short tops, not to mention the cottage cheese thighs

 

[tamalero]

http://i13.tinypic.com/67oa9lf.jpg

 

[justjc]

AMD can do better 😉

And then they bought this one

 

[TechnologyCoordinator]

Intel is winning here, too:
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/1674/intelyo5.jpg

At the moment, the only time AMD is keeping up with Intel is when falling in a vacuum.

THOSE CLOTHES ARE OPTIMIZED FOR INTEL CHICKS. UNFAIR.

 

[wh3resmycar]

hmm i wonder what kind of "socket" those amd girls support? do they also support "hyperthrusting" technology?

 

[TechnologyCoordinator]

hmm i wonder what kind of "socket" those amd girls support? do they also support "hyperthrusting" technology?

ROFL

 

[ro3dog]

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[caamsa]

whatever, kid.

You are just jealous because you don't have a woman................

 

[enforcer22]

Sure, Core 2 is currently faster than Athlon X2, but if AMD goes under, who is to compete with Intel? What incentive will Intel have to keep pumping out faster chips at a lower price? I don't want to see Netburst happen again. 🙁

So I'm hoping Phenom will blow Core 2's socks off.

Why for the love of god does anyone think AMD is going to go under thats retarded.

Anyways i didnt read all the posts nore do i want to but for the love of god AMD isnt gunna go down if they really were they would have when they were forced to make K5 instead of taking intels designs and making them better.

And yes i do have a 8086 and a 286 and 386 all AMD XD well not sure about the 8086 but the other two are.

PS. i just looked at the cheerleaders and i must say that they know how to pick the ones that really should be walking on all 4's here. Thank god thier cpus arent as bad as thier women.

 

[jkflipflop98]

You are just jealous because you don't have a woman................

My wife would beg to differ.

 

[TechnologyCoordinator]

My wife would beg to differ.

Exactly, my e-wife would be pissed off too. One sec, she's doing a video chat, brb...

 

[jaguarskx]

Back to the original topic...

Go AMD!!! WOOT, WOOT!!!

 

[cfvh600]

Yes GO AMD! 🙂

 

[wolverinero79]

Ah fun

AMD's quad -core design is real quad core. Unlike intel they didn't stick two dual core processors together like what what happened with the Pentuim D , they made them native like the Athlon X2. That why AMD won (in the end).

It must really burn that even with Intel's alternative Quad design, they're kicking butt. I don't see the AMD quad approach winning - can you point it out? Is it being behind 12-18 months? Is it losing hundreds of millions of dollars each quarter due to no competative product? Is it losing their marketing chief since not even he can spin the crap enough to make it sellable?

You know what, penryn is just a die shrink of a Core 2 Quad + 2MB of cache + SSE4. This would have made a big difference if AMD did this but since intel is STILL using FSB it hits a bottle neck and intel loses most performance gains.

Wow, the shrink should provide little performance gain and SSE4 will really only help in SSE4 optimized software (not a huge amount out there). With a shrink, you'd also expect more leakage, resulting in much higher heat. With Penryn, you see the opposite of all of those. You see great performance gains for a shrink and significantly less power requirements. Oh, just FYI - FSB is not a bottleneck on the desktop or in mobile.

However Phenom has technologys that intel is planning in its roadmap ie. shutting off individual cores or SSE5 Or indivual core shutting. The ONLY thing I can congratulate intel on is being the first one to be 45nm. AMD should be there 3-6 months later and intel just can't keep on sticking Core 2 Duos and increasing FSB. So they will do what they were meant to do and make a native quad core with thier version of HT but it will be delayed and everyone will be enjoying AMD 45nm Phenoms for a year or two.

AMD will not be at 45nm in 3-6 months. And if AMD lags anymore, they'll be competing with Nehalem and all those architectural competative advantages kind of disappear. Also, Intel has no SSE5 plans.

Conclusion: AMD spends more time than intel creating a quality product. AMD creates better techology that barely makes a difference now ie. 3d now! but is important later.

Getting back to the topic: GO AMD

3DNow was an important technology? Laugh! If it was really critical and a better implementation of particular operations that were provided in SSE, AMD wouldn't have wasted their time trying (read here as being forced by the industry) to support SSE as well. The only reason for 3DNow initially was that AMD was getting completely spanked by Intel in the floating point sector. Typically when 2 companies in an industry have competing technologies and one company adopts the other's technology and it doesn't flow the other way, it means the company doing the adopting produced the inferior technology. As an example the other way, AMD64 was adopted by Intel (Intel didn't have any alternative...they just snagged what was already there).

In terms of quality, we could go back and look at AMD's entire history of "quality" and note really how incredibly poor (at least compared to Intel) it was until the K7 days (that's 30 years of inferiority). And then of course, we see that AMD is still releasing "quality" with the 4x4 platform and their initial 65nm K8's.

Ya, based on your name, it's kind of expected that you'll be a temporary/permanent troll, but oh well.