Which CPU do you have?

Syncroneyes · January 8th, 2008, 02:30 PM

I have to be brutally honest (I have come to the realisation that there is no point fooling myself any longer and covering my eyes from the truth) I think the Athlon X2 is going to be AMDs last decent product before Intel makes AMD consumer products effectively defunct/redundant in the long term. Years from now when all AMD make are servers Athlon X2 will be remembered as the last ray of light for AMD and also the final nail in their consumer coffin....

...well , perhaps that was a little bit gloomy...

Dyre Straits · January 8th, 2008, 02:45 PM

AMD should have stuck with processors and left ATI alone. That's how I feel about it. And, I'm afraid that AMD's troubles will bring ATI down with them.

But, I do hope I'm wrong. I'm not an AMD fan as I've been quite pleased with Intels for years. But, I've also been an avid fan of ATI cards for just about as long. I just don't like the idea that there won't be any real competition because then there's no reason to bring prices down.

Unixlord · January 8th, 2008, 02:54 PM

Shared L2 cache is a boon for single threaded applications. When you're only using one core it gets extra cache from its neighbor. That is why Intel is pushing hard for a single L2 cache for all four cores (but not for nehalem anyhow).

Syncroneyes · January 8th, 2008, 02:54 PM

you can almost see the turquoise line shrinking and red line growing, if not now, in the future you will be....

Syncroneyes · January 8th, 2008, 02:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unixlord

Shared L2 cache is a boon for single threaded applications. When you're only using one core it gets extra cache from its neighbor. That is why Intel is pushing hard for a single L2 cache for all four cores (but not for nehalem anyhow).

v interesting, i didn't know that...