On 10/29/2012 02:15 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner:
On 10/28/2012 4:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Sb, 27 oct 12, 22:27:30, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Coming from a 2800+ which is a ~60 watt CPU, and given the fact
you'll never make use of more than 2 of those 8 cores, I recommend
a dual core AthlonII X2 @ 3.4GHz. I have the 3GHz model and the
2nd core is pretty much always idle, with primary core being idle
most of the time as well, as is everyone's.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103953
Any opinion on a Core i3 (Ivy Bridge)?
I use and promote AMD exclusively. If everyone buys Intel then AMD
exits the x86 processor business. If/when that happens, Intel has no
competition and can and will do two detrimental things to the market:
1. Raise prices with impunity
2. Innovate at a lower pace, or stop innovating altogether
If enough people buy AMD then Intel has a strong competitor. This
keeps the marketplace healthy and keeps Chipzilla from becoming a
total monopoly WRT x86.
Granted. Thats the political reason.
Still I see nothing in AMD space that can compete with recent Sandybridge
/ Ivybridge processors in terms of computing power versus power
consumption ratio.
But I am happy to learn more.
I think that ARM will become interesting enough to have some competition
going on.
And I think AMD might have something nice to offer as competition to Intel
Atom CPUs.
For powerful laptops and power saving desktops I think Intel
Sandybridge/Ivybridge is best bet currently - except for the political
dimension.
At the same time, I have reservations about supporting AMD -- or more to
the point their subsidiary, NVidia -- when purchasing hardware. It seems
to me that Intel has been a better friend to FOSS than its competition.
I run my systems without proprietary software or firmware. Intel has
made that a lot easier for me. I like to reward them for that -- not
that any of those companies would ever notice whether or not I was a
customer. NVidia certainly didn't give a d*** about me when I was trying
to get support for three workstations running their most expensive
pro-sumer graphics cards. (And that was on Windows, as well as on
GNU/Linux.)
;-)
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