Weekend tech reading: What went wrong with AMD?

[dividebyzero]

I thought the Japanese Admiral was quoted as saying after the attack on Pearl Harbor, "I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant"......Um well, that's what happened to AMD...!

And Yamamoto went down in flames not long afterwards....

 

[princeton]

ikesmasher said:

princeton said:

Guest said:
Nothing went wrong with AMD..They are STILL offering better bang for buck, even if the more expensive 8100 flopped more.

And I still prefer their graphics to nvidia.

Good to see the Guests making horrible incorrect posts as usual.

I think what guest was trying to say is its either (for example) a fx-4100 or an i3...and quite frankly, i would rather have a fx.

The i3-2120 is faster than the FX-4100. The FX-4100 isn't even a quad core like it's advertised. 2 FPUs and 4 integer units.

 

[princeton]

Milwaukeemike said:
The more you like Intel, the more you should root that AMD keeps nipping at their heels. Competition keeps prices down.

I've used AMD in 4 out of my last 5 builds. AMD's lower prices couldn't compensate for the 2500k's far superior performance. But that computer wasn't for me. I don't need top of the line performance, and I love having the AMD option with 1 step down in performance for 2 steps down in price.

So what CPU did you get? Because in the real world there is no price range above $100 where an AMD offering is better than the equivalently priced Intel.

 

[Guest]

I have recently bought a AMD Fx bulldozer x4 and it was faster the the i3 I had so AMD isn't all that bad.