I'm sorry, I'll become a psychic/stalker for the next time I post in one of your threads.
I ignore your old posts because a) They might not be relevant anymore, b) They might be silly (I recall one time you threatened to ban me because I said global warming wasn't bull****), and c) I don't have the time to read every single thread you've made. There's a lot of them.
I wasn't being condescending, I was offering you a piece of advice. Until recently, I would also have chosen an AMD as my processor. A friend of mine bought a new PC last week, and I talked to him about parts beforehand. I argued that he should go with AMD, to which he simply showed me that various tests indicate AMDs models to be less powerful and more expensive than the new Intel ones.
Personally I wouldn't have remembered that it was a good idea to check CPU ratings before buying one. I would have just bought the best AMD I could afford.
I don't really understand your Intel argument. Should people stop buying American cars because it makes their engineers lazy as well?
I wasn't reffering to an old thread, I was referring to the top of this one, making that post very relevant. And for ****s sake, I have NEVER banned anyone for disagreeing with me. Being a condoscending prick about it broke the respect rule, so I might have threatened you about that, further I'm pretty sure warning /= ban. Just to lay this to rest, I have no problems with you, in fact, I find you very funny at times, and particularly intelligent (or at least well educated). On the other hand, you can never seem to share your percieved superior position without being snarky right out of the gate. Perhaps you don't realize that saying "Next time" in front of a piece of advice indicates that you believe this time around is a failure; that's not advice, that's admonishment. Now that I see that you didn't intend to be snarky, I apologize for jumping on you. And perhaps I could do with my own advice and not instantly jump on people.
New Mobo
(A note here, I'm aware i7's are still better, but I'm going to continue to support AMD):
ASUS M4A89TD PRO/USB3 AM3 AMD 890FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131655
My Intel argument goes thusly. For many, many years, Intel has been the leader not in innovation, but manufacturing process. They have always led in fabrication ability, but they were never producing the best ideas. This came to a head many times. Against AMD in the early days, Motorola, MIPS, DEC, it was always the same story. If any of Intels competitors (if you could even call them that) ever matched Intel in the fabrication game, Intel would not be able to sit on their laurels. AMD had a much faster 486 and math coprocessor, Cyrix had floating point x486 chips that could run quake, Intel did not. MIPS and DEC didn't need to worry about CISC overhead. AMD again came from behind with superior design engineering during the Athlon 64 vs. Pentium 4. During these moments when Intel was actually losing because their design was inferior and only saved by their fab process, Intel would opt for strong arming competition out of business, which has caused them to be sued many times in many nations. Intel would then opt for copying the technology philosophy of the chips that beat them. This moment, where they reach out and do something different, drives the whole market to new things. They countered AMD and Cyrix by including a robust math co-processor on the Pentium 1, they countered MIPS, Motorola and DEC by shoehorning RISC philosophy into their increasingly CISC architecture. Against the Athlon 64, they chose to counter the then most powerful math coprocessor on the planet by adding four ****ty ones to the P4. When that didn't work they went to redisigning the P4, bringing us the wonderful Core chip, which had managed to rip off every AMD advancement to that point, understandably so. Again, with their fab process always being a step ahead of AMD, they were able to beat AMD with their process and AMD's design paradigm.
Moral of the story; keep buying Intel, and they think its okay to sell you lazy manufactured well.
Now I understand that I'm only one man, and that my individual purchase will not make much difference in the long haul, but I do not intend to allow, with my dollar, the injury of AMD (or ARM for that matter).
Intel had an empire to maintain, they never had reason to conquer. I intend to give them reason to reach for glory, no matter how slight that reason, it forces everyone else to up their game. If people buy Intel, and AMD dies, Intel will go back to being lazy 24/7. I had this argument with an intel engineer, he was annoyed, but got my point.
As a system builder, I always have to be on top of what's out at the moment and the general strengths of those products offered. That said, when a customer wants a firebreathing machine at this moment in time it gets built with an i7. I always research who has what before I build any machine, thank you for the pointer anyway.
