After a bruising month where it had to admit a series of missteps with its quad-core microprocessor strategy, Advanced Micro Devices got a boost Jan. 3 from Hewlett-Packard. On Thursday, HP announced that it would begin selling a consumer desktop – the Pavilion Media Center m8330f – that will use AMD's new quad-core Phenom processor. The new desktop is one of several new PCs that the Palo Alto, Calif., company plans to display at the 2008 International CES, which kicks off Jan. 7. While AMD still has a number of issues to work through in 2008, including delivering its chips to its partners on time, the announcement does give the chip maker access to customers through one of the globe's top-tier PC vendors. Although HP is offering AMD's quad-core chip in one of its new desktops, the rest of its desktops and notebooks and that will be on display at the 2008 CES will use a combination of dual-core and quad-core Intel processors.
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Dont forget to factor in repair and mantenance. Initial cost doesnt mean as much then.
True, in raw performance, Intel's current Core chips are faster. If you pit price vs performance, AMD still gives Intel a run for its money. Consider, if an AMD chip runs 80% the speed of an Intel chip, but costs 70% the price of that Intel chip, it's still a better buy, as long as you don't need the absolute fastest processor.
AMD Phenom 9700 - AU$380
Processor speed info from: Tom's Hardware CPU Guide
AMD Phenom 9700 - AU$380
Processor speed info from: Tom's Hardware CPU Guide
Here here - AMD has pushed competition. Whilst they have been ultimately destroyed in the Quad Core market by Intel, who clearly have that niche market sown up, it must not be forgotten that AMD did indeed rule the market for a substantial time and positively pushed the gaming generation of hardware forward.
Long live competition
There have been folks on here who have said that Intel 'allowed' AMD to take their crown for a while to keep anti competition people off their backs.
I'm sorry but there is just no way in hell Intel would have allowed AMD to gain the foothold they did. The fact that AMD is now a serious player in the server market (we buy as many HP based AMD servers as we buy Intel now.. that never used to be the case) was a serious error by Intel simply because they lost their way and had to step back and look at just what the hell they were doing.
My home PC is still an AMD based machine (X2 3800+) mostly through brand loyalty rather than any performance or other reason. It is more than fast enough for what I need. I use a Core 2 Duo (E6600) at work however, and it is pretty stunningly fast!
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