He has done it first, so it's his own fault for starting this. I've only used his own type of argument.
Also done a little search and it looks like he's been bashing every single person that tries to buy AMD since 2006 just because intel had something faster for double the price.
If anyone is a fanboy here, it's the OP.
I've never said intel is bad, I'm building both AMD and intel rigs, starting from athlonII, phenomII through i5 and i7.
Intel is sure faster in some tasks, but in others, there is no noticeable difference. It's also more expensive. Just because AMD CPUs are usually slower than intel, that doesn't mean they're not up to particular task.
Take this as an example, let's say AMD is a ferrari or porsche and intel is bugatti veyron - sure the veyron is **** beast, but that doesn't make the ferrari slow, it's actually faster than most people will ever need and could break all speeds limits easily. Both will find it's customers and both are great - but at the different price points and for different people. And no, no no no no no, it is not the same price if you're doing a proper build, 965 with 150quid mobo isn't proper choice so stop bringing that example up.
Trying to tell someone that he needs to spend 800-1000quid on PC where in reality he'll be just as happy with a one that cost 400-600 is bad advice in my opinion. Maybe 5-8yrs ago that was different but now over the past year or two, the PC hardware has moved forward so much, that even 2-3yr old gear has still plenty of power even for heavy users without mentioning the newest tech. Even for encoding, I bet most of the photo/video/sound editing companies still use old quads or even dual cores, and they're fine somehow?
Most of them do their editing on a macbook or at most mac pro with E6400x2 or Q6600 sort of CPU at best.
Telling people that they need to spend all money they've got or maybe even save for extra 2 months just to get the faster current available rig because anything cheaper won't be good enough is totally wrong.
ocUK still has e5300 dual core builds up and just putted a new phenom 1 build last week, and I'm not suprised that they claim that it's still good and fast hardware, even considering its age, but oh no, easyrider claims that everything below i5 or i7 is slow, sluggish and useless and can't even run win7 properly.
The performance was, and still is very good.
So is the one of athlonIIs and phenomII chips.
They're nowhere near slow and even the 35quid athlonII is more than enough for some.
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Very well, if the Dons agree with the OP that all AMD cpu's are useless and slow and can't run anything and that the intel is the one and only possible choice for everyone then please, feel free to ban me.
I'm outta this thread.
Regards,
Phoenix
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