Quote Originally Posted by GAR View Post
As of this point, buying an AMD cpu/motherboard does not make sense, it simply doesnt offer anything better than intel, simply nothing. No reason to buy AMD till they get their act together and come out with a good performing modern cpu. Old tech is not cutting it anymore, and K10 is simply an update of K8, nothing new really, K8 was 2002/2003 technology.
Yes and no actually, I understand your point but you've to be more carefull with what you say.

Buying an AMD based PC right now is a bit of cannon fodder since you jump right into a hole. K10 is finally performing better and better due to slightly improving production, but mainly due to SB750. However, Deneb ES previews thus far shown a very nice improvement and with that in mind, it's not worth it a lot to buy another Agena unless you really cant wait. Athlon X2 6500 is nice to play around with of course, but just talking about Phenom X4, it's better to wait a little more.

However, regarding 'old tech', no. In the end most cores or any other product can be re-directed to older technology. Besides that, K10 has a huge improvement technology wise over K8 and Yorkfield. And that's also why K10 is worth buying, you've a lot of things to play with. Of course Intel is about to release their i7 Core soon which might fade this argument a bit although it depends a little bit on how tweakable they actually will be since there are quite some mixed stories going around. And well, I could ask any Yorkfield owned the very same question, why invest in older technology? And yeah, that's a pretty stupid question I guess

Quote Originally Posted by User9498 View Post
I like this new and improved Donnie. At first, I wasn't even sure it was the same person.
Dunno what happened, world turned upside down, but I like it Now only keep it up