YEA! SCREW INTEL!~El~Jefe~ wrote:so, that's why i say SCREW INTEL. force feed us crap, refuse good things because of marketing/businessdeals/pride, leave em be is what I say.
... actually, no.
No one forced you or anyone to buy Intel... unless you buy from Dell anyway.
They made some mistake. It costed them our money (unless you bought Intel despite their fault). They seem to have finally fixed it. If they did, and what we saw in those benchmark is real, then I am happy to go back to them (I went Intel, Intel, Intel, AMD, AMD, [who knows]).... assuming they don't charge a super premium for those chips anyway.
I am, em, grateful I guess. In the last few years I've been encouraging people around me to go AMD when they build a new PC. But that is because their current chips are very good compared to the competition. I would howeve go back to Intel if the chip is as good as it seems though. Just like I stuck with Intel during the Pentium 2 era. But I am grateful to those who supported AMD when they didn't have the best chips out... I value competition, and without supporters, AMD will go out of business...Tzupy wrote:As an AMD fan, I would never buy a Conroe, even if it's as fast as these benchmarks showed (I tend to believe them, since the Conroe architecture is impressive on paper).
Then again, they took my money in the last few years, hopefully it'll allow them to do bring something good against Conroe in the future