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Intel Funds AMD-bashing Report

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the marketing-does-the-dumbest-things dept.

Jim Norton writes "The Inqwell and ZDNet are reporting that the Aberdeen group, who recently published a report attacking the Athlon XP's processor rating system, was funded by Intel to produce the report. The articles also mention that AMD claims they were never contacted for information regarding this issue." From the benchmarks that various outfits have done on the new AMD chips, their model number is actually pretty conservative.

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  1. Some extraction required by motorsabbath · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Somebody needs to point Intel to the Cranial-Rectal-Extraction-HOWTO - the mini-HOWTO doesn't seem to have helped them much ...

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  2. MB bug by mnordstr · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This is somewhat offtopic, but I just thought I'd share this. I had a lot of problems with my AMD Athlon XP 1700+ with an Asus A7V133-C motherboard in Linux. I thought it was the Athlon/AGP bug, but the fixes for that didn't help. Programs kept segfaulting/causing bus errors, and sometimes the system hang.

    Then I happened to find an upgrade to my BIOS, flashed it and suddenly everything worked perfectly. If you have weird problems that you can't seem to get fixed, try to look for a BIOS update! It's always a good idea, even if your system works, to check for new BIOSes regulary.

  3. XP? 4? 1800+? by secondsun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have a processor that will trump all!
    Better than a 2.2GHzA, XP 1800+, P4 2.0 Ghz...

    THE 80486! It has more numbers so it must be faster right?

    Secondsun
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  4. Re:I have no sympathy for Intel by Mr+Guy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The proof of the pudding is this

    Wow, someone using the term correctly. Proof, in that phrase, being the mathmatical term meaning roughly "test". I just hate it when people say the proof is in the pudding. The saying is, "The proof is the pudding."
    See also, "the exception that proofs the rule."

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  5. Re:Missing the point by lscoughlin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    if i had a couple of moderator points like i did yesterday, i'd mod your ass up.

    whee

    -T

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