Intel's Sandy Bridge CPUs way ahead of schedule, could be with us this year

[-Boris-]

My first was a 486dx2-66 that was slower than my 486dx2-50.

That is simply impossible to blame on the processor. If all the other components were the same the AMD one couldn't possibly be slower.
If you have two identical systems with identical processors the one with the higher frequency is the fastest one.

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

How was it crap? I can't recall a single program in which a PIII 850 would be able to beat a 1GHz Athlon.

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.

This have nothing to do with the processor, it has to do with settings in windows. You can't blame AMD for this.


In seems to me that there is something you aren't telling us, like a significant lower amount of ram in the AMD systems or a graphics card that isn't as good as the one in the intel systems you compare with.

Are your computers built by you or are they OEM systems?