Thread: Is AMD doing well again?

On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:07:19 +0200, Jure Sah wrote: Daniel Lenski pravi: Interesting. So, you're saying that nVidia feels it has to cozy up to Intel as a counterweight to AMD-ATI? That could explain nVidia caving and allowing SLI for some Intel chipsets. I would call that a definite possibility, considering the point that AMD and ATI are now indeed very supportive of eachother. Yeah, on the other hand I don't see how ATI+AMD really...

Jure Sah writes: * On Intel, the microcode grew more and more sophisticated and it now does a great deal of processing (basically runtime optimization as code is fed into the CPU), which is what gives Intel CPUs the ability to run some code very quickly in it's characteristic jerky performance (does some things very quickly, but momentarily slows down unexplainably on others; you can actually notice this when using the computer under...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Just came across living proof of such alliances and how they are made without the interests of the end-user in mind. http://www.phoenix.com/en/OEM-ODM/Pr...re/default.htm Phoenix makes these BIOSes, which naturally run on AMD motherboards as well. The ad starts out as "Phoenix TrustedCore is the first firmware offering to fully meet the compliance requirements for Intel Onscreen...

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:43:24 +0000, Dan Lenski wrote: eah, since writing that I found out about the Nvidia Ion chipset, which is pretty new. There are a bunch of good deals on Zotac boards with this chipset, apparently ( http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php? t=1504403). The problem is that NVidia has the worst open-source driver support of the major GPU makers. And with 2D/3D graphics improving so rapidly for ATI and Intel GPUs,...

I agree with you "Wes Newell" wrote in message ... On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:46:53 -0600, rms wrote: I built my current computer in the beginning of 2008. I went to New Egg today and I was very impressed with their new Phenom II cpus. They have pretty much every power feature you could want. So have they restored their reputation with gamers? It's clear that intel cpus, especially the latest i7 or whichever cores, are...

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:03:10 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: However -- for typical usage (running web browsers, editors, etc), the phenom _system_ feels far speedier and more responsive. I have ALWAYS liked the AMD CPUs for their feel in use, even if they benchmark lower. I recently built a new system; MSI AM3 MB, Phenom II X3 720 BE CPU, 4 gigs of DDR3 1600 memory, and this thing FLYS are almost everything, especially things like running...

On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:48:03 +0200, Jure Sah wrote: Hi, As one possible explanation... Dan Lenski pravi: What is their rationale for *not* supporting FLOSS at this point?? We have been noticing a situation on the market for some time, where certain manufacturers and/or software makers tend to "stick together" and help each-other lock out their respective competition. A typical bond you would see was Intel-Microsoft (per CPU...

Jure Sah writes: * On Intel, the microcode grew more and more sophisticated and it now does a great deal of processing (basically runtime optimization as code is fed into the CPU), which is what gives Intel CPUs the ability to run some code very quickly in it's characteristic jerky performance (does some things very quickly, but momentarily slows down unexplainably on others; you can actually notice this when using the computer under...

I built my current computer in the beginning of 2008. I went to New Egg today and I was very impressed with their new Phenom II cpus. They have pretty much every power feature you could want. So have they restored their reputation with gamers?

Rich Billionaire wrote: I built my current computer in the beginning of 2008. I went to New Egg today and I was very impressed with their new Phenom II cpus. They have pretty much every power feature you could want. So have they restored their reputation with gamers? They seem to be