Mildly OT: AMD's latest chip(s)

[Andrej Marjan]

Alex Beamish wrote:
> I think this chip (or pair of chips) is a non-starter, based on the 
> combination of a) power consumption, b) noise, c) price and d) ho-hum 
> performance. From what I've seen lately, the best bang for a buck is a 
> P4 2.4 with loads of RAM -- but that's probably only because I'm not 
> convinced a 64 bit processor is any better than any of the 
> tried-and-true 32 bit processors around.
>
> I used to wonder at power supplies capable of 1kW loads .. now I 
> understand what they were being built for.

Games. Those quad SLI contraptions from nVidia (and whatever ATI offer 
as an equivalent) require an obscene amount of power.
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