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I'm such a tool......

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rudeguy said:
I feel you. My Athlon XP chip was my favorite. Had it in a K7S5A and overclocked the piss out of it. I bet I didn't even have $150 into the mobo and CPU. Man..that combo was great.

Just built a rig for lil rudeguy. Dropped a total of $400 on the mobo and cpu, of course I bought an Intel chip. I bought the unlocked chip and the mobo with OC bios built in. Never touched any of the settings, didn't have to. It was scary fast at stock, so I had no reason to dick with it.

The old days are gone man....
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K7S5A, how legendary. The sis 735 single chip chipset.
I had one too once upon a time ago.
 
mmntech said:
I'm a bit of a fanboy with AMD but yeah, their CPUs haven't been competitive in a very long time. Their one saving grace is low cost, if you want to build a cheap rig. Though Intel's performance per watt is significantly higher.

Their one bright side is the GPU market. They're still very competitive with nVidia. Especially since they snagged the entire 8th gen console market. Not to mention they usually are cheaper as well, especially when compared to nVidia's more silly offerings. GTX Titan, I'm looking at you. Unfortunately, the R9 series don't seem to be quite up to the GTX 7XX cards.
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Isn't the R9 just a re-badge? Or is that only the cards below the R9-290X?

The GTX 700 series should outclass that generation of cards, considering it is entirely new. Though still, that new architecture still can't touch AMD's GPU compute architecture, but I think that's a side effect since you'd expect that actual pipeline graphical performance should come first in the consumer cards. Then again, AMD might be trying to focus the architecture entirely on the enterprise/development side, and simply try and get whatever they can from that development on the consumer side.
Obviously Nvidia does the same thing, enterprise and development is more money, but they've still focused on the rendering pipeline. They focused their GPU computation efforts a little differently, so it's far better for the key heavy-lifting tasks they focus on, but terrible for simpler calculations like those used in crypto-currency mining.

AMD has been making some significant strides with their overhauled architecture, and I am looking forward to what they can come up with for the next generation of consumer cards.
 
monkeydelmagico said:
You should. When AMD is gone and Intel charges $250.- for an entry level CPU we will all weep with shame.

Many a tear was shed when Cyrix left the market right?
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Is this going to happen in the next 12 months. From what I hear you won't even be able to buy pcs after that because we will all be using tablets.....
 
Meh, AMD can't match or compete with the i5s or i7s, but, at the entry level/low end, the A8 and A10 lines are pretty decent bang for the buck. The fact that they are passable at low resolutions for light gaming makes them great boxes for kids who want to do their minecraft but don't necessarily need to play crysis.
 
I keep saying I will go back to Intel, but I never do, even though they have been the clear performance kings for several years now.

It's the price. I really do find a lot of value out of paying $100-150 less for a comparable AMD CPU/mobo combo than an Intel one.
 
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