AMD faded away?

[semi-pro waster]

AMD aren't dead in the water so to speak but Intel have reclaimed the number one position by (for the first time in a while) having a CPU that is clearly ahead on performance/overclockability and competes well on price. I suspect some of the problem for AMD stems from their purchase of ATI and a bit of a loss of focus.

If I can then I prefer to buy AMD because it is the smaller company and deserves support (to keep Intel vaguely honest if nothing else) but at the moment Intel chips are where my money would be going.

[Stan_Lite]

Personally, I would like to see AMD make a comeback soon. I like them because they fought their way into the market with a superior product even though the odds were stacked against them and I'd like to see them do the same again.

Having said that, Intel most certainly have the upper hand at the moment with the Core series. Recent price cuts can only boost their market share - unless AMD come up with something special fairly soon.

With the top of the range Core 2 Duo, the E6850 at less than £180, a Core 2 Quad, the Q6600 only a fiver dearer and at the bottom of the range, the E2140 (which will, allegedly, overclock from 1.6GHz to 3.0GHz with ease - although the 1Mb L2 cache shared between the two cores cripples it a bit) at less than £50 it's hard to see why anyone building a completely new system would choose anything else.

[Feek]

Originally Posted by Vertigo1

FWIW, I have no brand loyalty at all and go with whatever is the best value at the time. Had Intel/AMD/NVidia/ATI over the years.

I'm the same, I go with whatever is best for me at the time. My last system was AMD and ATI which progressed to AMD and Nvidia and has now changed to Intel/Nvidia.

[Davey_Pitch]

Originally Posted by Vertigo1

FWIW, I have no brand loyalty at all and go with whatever is the best value at the time. Had Intel/AMD/NVidia/ATI over the years.

Same Current rig is AMD/ATI, while the next will be Intel/Nvidia (the first Nvidia card I've owned I think). I just go with what's best at the time for what I can afford

[Stan_Lite]

Same here.

Up until recently, I swore by AMD/ATI and all of my folding rigs (including my gaming rig) were built using that configuration.

My main gaming rig is now Intel/Nvidia and I will only switch if AMD/ATI release components superior to those I'm using at the moment.

[Daz]

See I've always preferred nVidia simply because they've always had superior Linux support. Hoping that might change though now ATI are AMD, they're quite good open source supporters.

[Stan_Lite]

Originally Posted by Daz

See I've always preferred nVidia simply because they've always had superior Linux support. Hoping that might change though now ATI are AMD, they're quite good open source supporters.

I found that when I dabbled with Ubuntu recently, the Nvidia drivers were a doddle to work with whereas, I never did get the ATI drivers to work any sense.