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Athlon FX

Originally posted by: Viper96720
LOL what's up with AMD using names others come up with first Athlon XP(Microsoft). Now its Athlon FX(Nvidia).
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Not a single original Idea in their marketing department yet.

Athlon/Duron=Celeron?

AMD ME!!!
 
Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Originally posted by: Viper96720
LOL what's up with AMD using names others come up with first Athlon XP(Microsoft). Now its Athlon FX(Nvidia).
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Not a single original Idea in their marketing department yet.

Athlon/Duron=Celeron?

AMD ME!!!
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pentium, pentium 2, pentium 3, pentium 4, lemme guess....pentium 5???
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Originally posted by: nick1985
Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Originally posted by: Viper96720
LOL what's up with AMD using names others come up with first Athlon XP(Microsoft). Now its Athlon FX(Nvidia).
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Not a single original Idea in their marketing department yet.

Athlon/Duron=Celeron?

AMD ME!!!
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pentium, pentium 2, pentium 3, pentium 4, lemme guess....pentium 5???
rolleye.gif
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LOL
 
Originally posted by: nick1985
Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Originally posted by: Viper96720
LOL what's up with AMD using names others come up with first Athlon XP(Microsoft). Now its Athlon FX(Nvidia).
Click to expand...

Not a single original Idea in their marketing department yet.

Athlon/Duron=Celeron?

AMD ME!!!
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pentium, pentium 2, pentium 3, pentium 4, lemme guess....pentium 5???
rolleye.gif
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Wurd. Intel gets no marketing points for hiring the blue-man group either.
 
Originally posted by: shady06
Originally posted by: nick1985
Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Originally posted by: Viper96720
LOL what's up with AMD using names others come up with first Athlon XP(Microsoft). Now its Athlon FX(Nvidia).
Click to expand...

Not a single original Idea in their marketing department yet.

Athlon/Duron=Celeron?

AMD ME!!!
Click to expand...

pentium, pentium 2, pentium 3, pentium 4, lemme guess....pentium 5???
rolleye.gif
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LOL
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brand recoginition is worth much more than the approval of a few computer geeks 😉

 
Originally posted by: nick1985
Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Originally posted by: Viper96720
LOL what's up with AMD using names others come up with first Athlon XP(Microsoft). Now its Athlon FX(Nvidia).
Click to expand...

Not a single original Idea in their marketing department yet.

Athlon/Duron=Celeron?

AMD ME!!!
Click to expand...

pentium, pentium 2, pentium 3, pentium 4, lemme guess....pentium 5???
rolleye.gif
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You're trying to make this an intel vs amd thread....wrong...its a stupid marketing team thread. It's a rediculously stupid name. It doesnt matter which company does it.

I mean if Intel called it the Pentium XP, I'd say the same thing about them.

Atleast Pentium is something original and a branded name in the minds of people. The numbers reflect the levels. IS it stupid to call games Quake 1, Quake 2, Quake 3?

But if Quake came out as Quake XP. Same thing.

Bad marketing is bad marketing....any way you look at it.
 
yeah... looks like they need to have some job openings in their marketing department.

Why not AMD Athlon NewKilla?


LOL
 
Originally posted by: Viper96720
No it's Pentium V gotta make it look fancy. Intel will probably be stuck with Pentium forever it's how they're known.
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Or we could call it "Prescott " ?
 
Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Originally posted by: nick1985
Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Originally posted by: Viper96720
LOL what's up with AMD using names others come up with first Athlon XP(Microsoft). Now its Athlon FX(Nvidia).
Click to expand...

Not a single original Idea in their marketing department yet.

Athlon/Duron=Celeron?

AMD ME!!!
Click to expand...

pentium, pentium 2, pentium 3, pentium 4, lemme guess....pentium 5???
rolleye.gif
Click to expand...

You're trying to make this an intel vs amd thread....wrong...its a stupid marketing team thread. It's a rediculously stupid name. It doesnt matter which company does it.

I mean if Intel called it the Pentium XP, I'd say the same thing about them.

Atleast Pentium is something original and a branded name in the minds of people. The numbers reflect the levels. IS it stupid to call games Quake 1, Quake 2, Quake 3?

But if Quake came out as Quake XP. Same thing.

Bad marketing is bad marketing....any way you look at it.
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Agreed, AMD has GOD AWFUL marketing, it's amazing. _I_ could do a better job than "athlon xp", "athlon fx", "opteron", etc.
 
Well, if they can't come up with original or logical names, I guess it makes sense to try to associates themselves with other successful brands/products. You know that there are some lesser-informed individuals out there who will think that an Athlon FX and a GeForce FX are optimized to run together (and it's a lot more subtle to call it an Athlon FX than an Athlon Radeon, heh).

I get sick of hearing the words Pentium, Geforce, and Radeon, but it makes sense that they stuck with the names because of brand recognition and all that... I think AMD's problem is that there still aren't too many people who really recognize the term "Athlon". Maybe AMD's next breakthrough product (assuming there is one) will be one that they can stick with the name on.
 
Originally posted by: Booty
I think AMD's problem is that there still aren't too many people who really recognize the term "Athlon". Maybe AMD's next breakthrough product (assuming there is one) will be one that they can stick with the name on.
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That would be great, except that their banking on the Athlon 64 to be their big breakthrough product. Looks like its Athlon or Bust for AMD!
 
AMD should have a naming contest for their next cpu. That usually works if your team can't come up with a name. Give the winner one of those cpu.
 
Originally posted by: SexyK
Originally posted by: Viper96720
Intel will probably be stuck with Pentium forever it's how they're known.
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Nah, eventually we'll all be using Itaniums 😉
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Yes! You can now purchase the new Intel Pentium Itanium processor. 😉

I'm sure they'll keep the Pentium name around for quite awhile, most of the names have held for quite some time. Athlon, Radeon, GeForce, KTXXX for via chipsets
 
Incidentally, IIRC (and I could be wrong. It's happened before. Once or twice 😉) Athlon XP came around the same times as Windows XP and I think the strategy was to associate themselves (AMD) more closely with Microsoft in a bid to gain some market share. I would think I would do the same thing, since many people consider the modern PC as a "Wintel" machine, owing to the dominance of both respective companies. You don't read articles using the term "AMDin" or "WinAMD". I personally thought Athlon XP was a decent idea to try and bring AMD more market share and attempt to educate people that you don't need an Intel processor to run Windows, as the term "Wintel" tends to imply. At least to computer neophites. Athlon FX, on the other hand (this is the first I have heard of it), does not strike me as a good name. I see no real good rationale considering, AFAIK, the GeForce FX has not been widely praised. (I could be wrong about this too, don't flame that last comment please. I don't keep up on the latest video tech, I am not interested. Heck, I just recently upgraded my GeForce 2 MX to a GeForce 4 Ti4200). And to comment on the Pentium name, it must have been original enough at the time that is has stuck for so long. I agree that the new Pentiums are essentially "sequels" to the original. Why shouldn't they be named Pentium II, III, 4 and so on. It works. People know who to associate Pentium with. That sounds like marketing genious to me. If you can essentially make up a word and have nearly everyone know what you are talking about when you mention it, it seems the marketing must work/have worked. Itanium got a different name because it is new, and different, than the Pentium. So it should be called something different. I like the Quake analogy. It's the same with movies, games, automobiles, even Coke tried it (Coke II anyone? Of course, that was crap IMO).

Just my two cents.

\Dan
 
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