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A AMD fanboy. Laymans reasoning.......
Thu, 2008-05-08 23:02 | by Erin
Wow so I looked on Reddit today and found not one but 2 articles about Intel Vs. AMD.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080507-amd-intels-misdeeds-killin...
And
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/107495
I didn't read either...... but I am a AMD fan from way back to my second computer which had a AMD Athlon. It was a 1300 mhz chip that over clocked beautifully to 1600 mhz and only took 22 hours to render a 15 minute video clip........
Reading that you might notice that I got into computing quite late in the game. True, I was almost 30 when I got my first computer job. Regardless I have always been a AMD fan even though some would say Intel based processors are "better".
Lets clarify "better" for one second .... there are a million ways for a processor to be FASTER , or more power efficient or a number of other qualifications, but if your mother board memory and video card not built to match, and you do not have all the most recent drivers patches and firmware you might .... as a end user notice the difference.
This argument brings me back to my youth ... Chevy Vs. Ford .....then throw a Hemi fan in the mix and .... well forget your civility's. In reality it was the same thing. It would always
boil down to a 305 V8 vs a 302 V8, then you change out the valve trains, cam and exhaust. Wait you can still overbore and ......................................
The arguments of yesterday carry over to today.
So back to the meat of argument, "Why do you support AMD?"
One word "Competition"
Seriously. Some one can prove in one set of tests that a Intel processor is better than a AMD or visa versa. But really what is one with out the other.
With Macs semi-recent move to Intel that takes the Power PC chip out of serious contention, and while VIA makes processors they have never come close to the serious computing power that AMD and Intel provide. Think about a Honda 20 years ago.
If you do not buy AMD ... well that is your choice. I do cause I want more choices than Google .... or Google .... or Google.
E./
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080507-amd-intels-misdeeds-killin...
And
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/107495
I didn't read either...... but I am a AMD fan from way back to my second computer which had a AMD Athlon. It was a 1300 mhz chip that over clocked beautifully to 1600 mhz and only took 22 hours to render a 15 minute video clip........
Reading that you might notice that I got into computing quite late in the game. True, I was almost 30 when I got my first computer job. Regardless I have always been a AMD fan even though some would say Intel based processors are "better".
Lets clarify "better" for one second .... there are a million ways for a processor to be FASTER , or more power efficient or a number of other qualifications, but if your mother board memory and video card not built to match, and you do not have all the most recent drivers patches and firmware you might .... as a end user notice the difference.
This argument brings me back to my youth ... Chevy Vs. Ford .....then throw a Hemi fan in the mix and .... well forget your civility's. In reality it was the same thing. It would always
boil down to a 305 V8 vs a 302 V8, then you change out the valve trains, cam and exhaust. Wait you can still overbore and ......................................
The arguments of yesterday carry over to today.
So back to the meat of argument, "Why do you support AMD?"
One word "Competition"
Seriously. Some one can prove in one set of tests that a Intel processor is better than a AMD or visa versa. But really what is one with out the other.
With Macs semi-recent move to Intel that takes the Power PC chip out of serious contention, and while VIA makes processors they have never come close to the serious computing power that AMD and Intel provide. Think about a Honda 20 years ago.
If you do not buy AMD ... well that is your choice. I do cause I want more choices than Google .... or Google .... or Google.
E./