Comments on: AMD edges Intel in early dual-core benchmarks

Benchmarking sites find that Athlon 64 X2 chips generally edge out the Intel Pentium D and the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition.

[lavacentral]

AMD has the the edge but darn the prices

As far as I am concerned (and probably most other AMD users), AMD always outperformed Intel in most applications. And simultanously, they were also cheaper. So it was a no brainer, get it cheaper and get better performance.

Now they stil get better performance but almost at twice the price.

I guess the only people that would really want to buy these are enterprise customers and they are already tied at the hip with Intel. Consumers will probably use intel because of the cheaper price. Most people wont know AMD is better than Intel anyway becuase of their marketing.

It will be interesting to see if AMD can get of this sink holel.

[sasper]

AMD high price CPU

Let do the math here. First buy a high price AMD CPU next install and update you mother bios. And what is the total cost.

Second buy a cheap Intel CPU and then buy a new mother board to run with it. And what is the total cost.

To me the price is almost the same. To you all, what about the performance?

[lavacentral]

AMD has the the edge but darn the prices

As far as I am concerned (and probably most other AMD users), AMD always outperformed Intel in most applications. And simultanously, they were also cheaper. So it was a no brainer, get it cheaper and get better performance.

Now they stil get better performance but almost at twice the price.

I guess the only people that would really want to buy these are enterprise customers and they are already tied at the hip with Intel. Consumers will probably use intel because of the cheaper price. Most people wont know AMD is better than Intel anyway becuase of their marketing.

It will be interesting to see if AMD can get of this sink holel.

[sasper]

AMD high price CPU

Let do the math here. First buy a high price AMD CPU next install and update you mother bios. And what is the total cost.

Second buy a cheap Intel CPU and then buy a new mother board to run with it. And what is the total cost.

To me the price is almost the same. To you all, what about the performance?