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Originally Posted by MrPink
he wants AMD
i would like to convince him to go intel, but as many people as possible need to buy AMD so that their market cap increases and can dominate intel in the future 
idk, no matter what i read, no matter what statistics people throw at me, i just don't see any viable performance advantage that intel may have. sure, they might have the fastests most overclockable procs, but dollar for dollar, the AMD models compete pretty well with similarly priced intels.
i guess when push comes to shove and it comes time for me to upgrade my platform, i'll probably go LGA 775. because i am too late for AM2, AM2+ will only be out for a year or so i read (before AM3 comes out). meanwhile, i haven't heard that intel will be upgrading their platform any time soon. then i'll be able to joing the crowd with my very own core 2 duo...    |
I'm no fanboy, I like the fastest cheapest parts
and intel makes them just now
Although at
stock speeds amd compete price-wise
overclock kills them like fish in a barrel
the cheapest of the cheap core 2 duo can overclock to 3.5Ghz
(as proved on tomshardware)
no dual core amd at any price can best an overclocked
pentium
the only moot point AMD have is energy efficiency
.....but that's only until wolfdale and yorkfield
the extreme yorkfield can idle at 3 watts
tell your friend to try and not be biased and get cheap overclocked c2d or wolfdale model if possible
I again have to state that I am not biased or a fanboy,
just amd is getting
schooled just now in the cpu front
Edit, to clarify I mean the exxxx pentium series before some guy tries to
"rofl pentium....lolz noob" me
