Who are AMD enthusiasts?

[DarkTransient]

Just wondering.
Now, let's see some hands.

[Gav]

?

[MikeHarm]

Got an Intel microchip in my pc, AMD's were too flaky for me.

Mike

[MStaubitz]

Intel's in all 3 of my machines... The early AMD's were all rather flaky in spots... From what I have been hearing though, the newer ones are pretty stable and fast. So, maybe my next one will be an AMD.



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Marc

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."
--"In his house in R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."

[foilist]

i have an amd in my machine... its great... no complaints at all... its an 800mhz... non-thunderbird... i really like it..

[Gav]

Oh! Who's the computer geeks!!!

Ha Ha Ha


Why? Is there some sort of stigma attached (in the USA)?

[MStaubitz]

Gav,

I am proud to be a computer geek... bought my first computer (with my own, hard-earned money) when I was 12. So, that was 14 years ago... now I have 3 computers at home, all of them custom-built by myself.

I have not yet encountered a social stigma over here in the US yet, but then again, most of the people I hang out with are either fencers (and therefore smart and open-minded) or have a computer on their own. They might not be experts or "computer geeks", but they are not prejudiced against computer users.

This might all be different in high-school... But then again, the football jocks that terrorized the computer geeks back in highschool now beg their former victims to give them jobs as night-watchmen and janitors at their multi-million software companies...

[disclaimer] This is by no means an insult to Night-Watchmen and Janitors. They are all valuable jobs and we couldn't do without them. [/disclaimer]



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Marc

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."
--"In his house in R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."

[Gav]

Whoa, ease up!

Sorry no offence intended. My girlfriend refers to me as a computer geek. I knew what AMD was in computer terms but I didn't see the point of the original post. If there's no stigma then why ask who's got an AMD. For the record I have a PIII 500.

[DarkTransient]

Just want to see what is the distribution of Athlon among fencers.

AMD == Good
Intel == Evil

Thank AMD for now one 1Ghz CPU is less than 100 bucks!!

Had Chipzilla's monopoly gone unabated, we'd still be paying through our noses for a computer.

[Emfuser]

[Rant]
I will also vouch for AMD as maker of a good product.

I've been running AMD chips in my (personally built) machines since the days when a 486 DX/2 at 80 MHz was fast. AMD may have gotten a shaky start, but now they're making a good product at a good price. Just yesterday I bought parts for new machine centered around a 1333 MHz Thunderbird.

I'll keep buying AMD as long as they stay the way they are: well priced and very competitive.

Mike

[End Rant]

[Event Horizon]

I have an AMD chip. However, computer is giving me problems. I think maybe I got ahold of one of the earlier flaky chips. Gonna upgrade soon. Yeah, still going with AMD. Am I crazy or what?

[DarkTransient]

Can't wait to get my hands on a nForce mobo.

[ 08-08-2001: Message edited by: DarkTransient ]

[fred]

PowerPC G3 500.

[DarkTransient]

BOOOOOOOOooooooo


joking

[fred]

Does about the integer of a PIII 733 at 12W max dissipation. A Thunderbird @ 1.2GHz is what, 45W? It's like parries, efficient is fast is more effective. (Had to throw some kind of a fencing ref in here

[DarkTransient]

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[D'Artagnan1673]

My preference is with the AMD chips too. They new ones are really nice

[Emfuser]

Been doing some digging in the thread graveyard?

[Thaddeus]

its all about the dual AMD chip set the new cheap 1.7ghz are sweet

[D'Artagnan1673]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Helvetica, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Helvetica, Arial">Originally posted by Emfuser:
<strong>Been doing some digging in the thread graveyard? </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Helvetica, Arial">LOL!!!! Yes, and its all thanks to you! I read your post in the "best features" thread and checked your most reccent posts out of curiosity and found this one.

Dual cpus sounds like fun. Now that I have a cable modem at home, I've been playing Age of Empires II on the Zone nightly.