Quote Originally Posted by josh1980 View Post
My first was a 486dx2-66 that was slower than my 486dx2-50.

Then I gave them a change with a K6-2 450 that should have been faster than my p2-200. With the exact same video card(I took it out of my computer and with me on vacation!), more ram than my desktop at home, and Everquest was unplayable. I was furious because I had just bought the computer and it was a POC.

Next I tried a 1Ghz AMD athlon(????). It was crap compared to my Intel p3 850mhz.

Then, most recently and regretably I tried an athlon x2 laptop. I was told that they had been doing much better after supposedly beating Intel's performance on the p4s. I had seen the benchmarks that AMD was even or superior on benchmarks but my friends always wondered why my p4s would boot up and play games better than their (what should have been superior) computers. Anyway, I wanted to be able to watch videos when traveling and it should have been able to cut the mustard. Instead, when I unplugged it I couldn't watch the 720p videos I had. I was so pissed off because I had spent $1200 on that laptop and it couldn't server the ONE purpose I had for it. The problem was as soon as you unplugged it, the CPU immediately clocked itself to the lowest frequency and locked itself there.

I called HP and they said that AMD's laptop line does that for battery life. I swore on that day I'd NEVER EVER EVER buy AMD again if I had any kind of performance based expectation. If/when AMD gives me a computer, I'll CONSIDER giving them another chance. Until then, I've soaked $3k+ over the last 10+ years and every time the computer would be less than a week old and was worthless to me. As for that laptop I paid 1200 for, I gave it away for $250 a month later because I couldn't stand to have it in my house it disgusted me so much.

Not to sound offensive but I've had quite a few people I work with ask the same question(you tried this line, that line, etc.). I have never bought an AMD and been happy with it.

I have a dark dark history with AMD, and I won't use them. I will recommend people don't buy AMD. But I will admit if I wasn't a power user and gamer I might have a different opinion of them. They do function, albeit in a limited manner for me, and have never, not even once, been able to perform the one task I intended them to be used for.

Despite the flame wars between Intel and AMD fanboys I am glad AMD is doing well. I'd prefer Intel have competition, I'd prefer the AMD employees stay employed because they won't stay employed from my product purchases.

I am looking at buying one of those "overpriced" dual core processors. And I know that when I buy it, it will do exactly what I need it to do at the minimum. I won't consider AMD because I have no intention of being disappointed yet again by (imo) a substandard product.

PLEASE don't start an Intel/AMD flamewar in this thread. I'm just trying to explain my position .



Cheers!

Your sig is very ironic , you blaming AMD for something that you should have taken responsibly for ... Your post is nothing but fud.All you have to do is enable performance mode in wista/win7 power management and you mobile processor will clock up to full speed, regardless of power source.


I am not too exited about SB myself , but time will tell what performance improvement it will bring.And it will be a "Tock" , tocks are usually good






PS:tick-tock.