Oh, I completely agree--I wouldn't buy an AMD right now either. But my loyalty is thin. AMD's 45nm Deneb generation chips look to be capable of clocking fairly high. I at least allow for the possibility that tomorrow may be different--though I expect Core i7 to eat its lunch. I'm taking a wait-and-see approach before deciding on the replacement for my superb 3.6GHz Q6600.
I think that some could make the argument that we are now largely in an era of "good enough" computing, too. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of maccrawj > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 1:58 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] Upgrade Time > > Whatever, it's too little to late from AMD, I looked to build an AMD in > March & > quickly decided Intel was a better bet, still is. > > It's an Intel market right now both for CPU & chipsets. > > Greg Sevart wrote: > > Not to mention that the TLB issue was stupidly overblown by the so- > called > > enthusiast community. "omg I can't o/c to 47GHz!! MUST BE TLB!!!" > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Boswell > >> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 8:19 AM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: [H] Upgrade Time > >> > >> > >> On 13 Oct 2008, at 13:09, Steve Tomporowski wrote: > >> > >>> I started reading some of the reviews and when there's some problem > >>> that comes and goes randomly, I think not....;-) > >> the L3 cache errata isn't an issue now, the 9x50 badged parts no > >> longer have that problem. > >> > >> > >> -JB > > > > > > > >
