AMD, trying to mount a comeback.
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Any competition will be good. The RISC space has solid competition with at least Oracle and IBM always keeping each other in check (and that's if you ignore ARM.) AMD was left without competition for years and look what happened. Now Intel has been, will be interesting to see if AMD is able to put some serious pressure on Intel and drive the market forward again.
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They've been playing catch up for far too long for me to care anymore. I'm a lifer for Intel/Nvidia products sorry L0S3R!
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@scottalanmiller said in AMD, trying to mount a comeback.:
Cool, I've always been such a fan of AMD. I hate being a "fan" of one vendor over another and Intel has had better stuff for years, but I'm excited to see an Opteron resurgence.
Yea I've been a fan of AMD for a long time. Its a shame how Intel was able to effectively screw them over and their market share (and got away with it). I would love for AMD to make a comeback, we are a mainly AMD shop (except servers unfortunately)
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@Brains I just buy whatever the best product is and stay out of the drama typically
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@wirestyle22 said in AMD, trying to mount a comeback.:
@Brains I just buy whatever the best product is and stay out of the drama typically
For us that is AMD and im very happy about it. I agree, my personal preferences normally dont matter when its not my money. But we dont need high powered machines, only ones that can run Office and IE, so AMD is the cheapest and best solution for all machines except IT ones (needs moar powah!)
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@zuphzuph said in AMD, trying to mount a comeback.:
They've been playing catch up for far too long for me to care anymore. I'm a lifer for Intel/Nvidia products sorry L0S3R!
One could say the same thing about Intel. Intel was playing catchup for just as long, just before AMD started playing catchup.
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@scottalanmiller Yeah, I've only been in the game for about 13 years. I just recall heat issues back then and failures let and right. They're much more advanced from a market standpoint currently but I still see things like the infamous cursor glitch that make me steer clear of AMD and ATI products... Intel just makes more sense to me, it's what I grew up building with and tinkering with speeds on.
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@zuphzuph said in AMD, trying to mount a comeback.:
@scottalanmiller Yeah, I've only been in the game for about 13 years. I just recall heat issues back then and failures let and right. They're much more advanced from a market standpoint currently but I still see things like the infamous cursor glitch that make me steer clear of AMD and ATI products... Intel just makes more sense to me, it's what I grew up building with and tinkering with speeds on.
Are you talking about desktop products? AMD were the cool running ones, not the hot ones, in the 64bit era.
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@scottalanmiller Yes I'm talking desktop hardware, CPUs specifically. It could've been my own fault though. I was only 12-13 at the time but I recall my first build which was an AMD chip. I guess I'm just tainted...
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Though competition is good for everyone in the end. Keep the prices low and competitive.
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@zuphzuph said in AMD, trying to mount a comeback.:
Though competition is good for everyone in the end. Keep the prices low and competitive.
Way more important: It drives innovation.
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@zuphzuph said in AMD, trying to mount a comeback.:
@scottalanmiller Yes I'm talking desktop hardware, CPUs specifically. It could've been my own fault though. I was only 12-13 at the time but I recall my first build which was an AMD chip. I guess I'm just tainted...
The server space really was almost purely AMD there for a long time, in the same way that Intel dominates today, AMD did even more back then. Intel had no offerings at all for a while.
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wow 32cores that's going to be expensive for licensing when everyone starts doing it based on cores not cpu's
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@hobbit666 said in AMD, trying to mount a comeback.:
wow 32cores that's going to be expensive for licensing when everyone starts doing it based on cores not cpu's
Like Microsoft SQL and DatacentreI don't ever want to touch something based on the number of cores it runs on ever again. Such a pain.
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@hobbit666 said in AMD, trying to mount a comeback.:
wow 32cores that's going to be expensive for licensing when everyone starts doing it based on cores not cpu's
Like Microsoft SQL and DatacentreOnly a few places do that, most are not based around cores. Most enterprise OSes don't need licensing at all. Remember that even 32 cores is tiny for big iron where they are way past these numbers long ago.
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@scottalanmiller said in AMD, trying to mount a comeback.:
@hobbit666 said in AMD, trying to mount a comeback.:
wow 32cores that's going to be expensive for licensing when everyone starts doing it based on cores not cpu's
Like Microsoft SQL and DatacentreOnly a few places do that, most are not based around cores. Most enterprise OSes don't need licensing at all. Remember that even 32 cores is tiny for big iron where they are way past these numbers long ago.
Oh, I'm reliving memories from 1997-2002 here, and the licensing associated with IDEAS, CATIA, and Pro-E. Most of those didn't have per-core licensing, but I remember one did. Just thinking about all the licensing servers in use at that place can cause me to have convulsions.
