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pcernie
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_________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/
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| Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:08 pm |
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm
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Bumper sales of what exactly? Their processors are a generation behind Intel and they can't write drivers to save their lives.
Add to that the problem of having pissed off the entire *nix ecosystem and it should be clear why they struggle to make money.
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
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Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Bumper sales of sub £100 parts = very little profit.
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| Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:26 pm |
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gavomatic57
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:30 pm
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Location: Cardiff, Wales
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I don't know...when you have been re-branding the Athlon 64 for 6 years, they're probably very cheap to make now. They might sell a few 5870's to people who can find them though..
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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AMD chips pack a punch for the price, I have yet to see an Intel chip that performs as well as my Phenom II 955 for a similar price. Intel chips were second to AMD chips once, I have little doubt Intel will drop the ball somewhere.
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| Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:52 pm |
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You have not looked very hard... Core i5 950, is 2 quid more at some retailers, some its cheaper than a 955 on offer. http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/819/12Doesn't look like the Phenom 955 is similar performance to the i5, looks like its loads slower to me.
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| Fri Nov 13, 2009 4:06 pm |
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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I've been using AMD and ATi for 10 years but I think that the point has come where I might have to fork out a bit more dough.
Quite simply, their prices might be attractive but the quality and support just isn't good enough.
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| Fri Nov 13, 2009 4:16 pm |
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phobos
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I have an HP6735B laptop which is Turion 2.2, HD3200 as part of the 780G package running Windows 7 and its good, but had numerous probs with their desktop cards in Vista, a 3870 then a 4850 1GB, the drivers are very variable you probably already knew.
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
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When is AMD's fusion out? 2010 or 2011?
Until they get a new architecture they can only compete with low prices for CPU's.
GPU's should net them a bit of cash next year though.
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