Quote Originally Posted by menace2society View Post
Don't kid yourself every potential customer is on or should be on AMD's radar. If you remember when AMD was king,it was then that they made the biggest intrusion into Intel's market share. I just don't think Phenom 2 will make a big difference in Amd's bottom line.


You make some good points, the dollar is weak but to give an example of someone doing well, a few of my friends handle bankruptcies, there business is booming, another friend owns a auto repair shop he says his business is doing better then it has in 25 years.

As far as "a bunch of hardware that all runs about the same" this is xtreme systems and every little bit counts

Again just my opinon: Menace
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Honestly most of the folks that frequent enthusiast computer sites aren't poverty stricken.

My aftermarket computer parts are still selling, and we are just as busy as ever at my day job.



It was all hypothetical... all I was really saying was that if you threw everything out the window and looked with a pretty blurry view, it's all pretty much the same.

I just switched from a 4870 1Gb to a GTX260 55nm for the heck of it, and while the GTX260 is supposed to be slightly faster, all I noticed was a little difference in HDR rendering and colors.