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Re:Intel: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track by paulie_a on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @01:33AM (#21384460)
Intel made small improvements while the fx from years ago smoked pretty much anything for a tenth of the cost. Intel is overrated. The atom was a piece of junk. The celery was marginally better. And they ditched the Pentium class. I can't remember when they last used its name after the P4 debacle. AMD has consistently been competing at a much better price point. Now they are crushing Intel.

And you admitted bulldozer wasn't as bad as rambus

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Re:Intel: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track by LoSboccacc on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @03:32AM (#21384870)
that era athlons had lot stability issue and whatever you saved on cpu cost you had to spend in psu to run the thing.
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Re:Intel: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track by paulie_a on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @12:37PM (#21399604)
A 200 dollar chip and 100 dollar psu doesn't add up to the equivalent 500-1000 dollar Intel.
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Re:Intel: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track by LoSboccacc on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:09PM (#21402770)
fx and x2 where _never_ that ahead of performance to be comparable to a twice expensive intel chip.
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Re:Intel: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track by paulie_a on Sunday November 03, 2019 @05:04PM (#21437011)
Maybe I got a great deal but it measured 9000+ on cpubenchmark for 300 dollars. Intel equivalent was nearly 1000 for the same performance. Yes power requirements were higher but that's pennies on the dollar.
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