AMD gives up?

Tyler Aviss tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Mar 22 18:24:25 UTC 2012


Depends on what you're looking for.
Most gaming kit seems to depend more heavily on RAM+GPU than CPU. For
$300, Tiger has a 6-core AMD, 8GB of RAM, 500GB HDD etc. Everything
except the OS and a better graphics card.
Same page, a quad-core i7 is over $300. That's just the CPU... never
mind the case, RAM, HDD, motherboard, etc (and the Intel-compatible
mobo's tend to be more too).

Yes, the i7 will outperform the AMD for CPU-based computation... but
if you want an affordable but decent PC then AMD is definitely still a
contender.

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:16 AM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Don't you wish they would just come out and admit it?
>
> <http://www.tomshardware.com/news/AMD-APU-Z-Series-ARM-Tegra-3,14114.html>



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