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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. Why is everyone here Anit-Intel by taya0001 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Slashdot is so pro-AMD and and Anti-Intel. Why? This isnt anything new. This is just another PR tactic by Intel to try and get more people to buy their processors. Most people who really know about CPU specs will know which processor they want to buy without relying on something like this. The people who buy into propaganda like this deserve to get ripped by intel

  2. Re:I can vouch for the numbers AMD uses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    > The only people buying Intel are big OEMs and end users who still haven't given up the idea that AMD is an "incompatible clone processor."

    Well, we have 5 athlons here that are not running more than a few hours without crashing (before people start flaming at me, we have identical athlon machines. Some runs perfectly, other crashes 3 times a day). Those give more bangs for the bucks than P4, but, at the end of the day, our solid platforms are Intel based.

    And god knows how much I hate Intel...

    Cheers,

    --fred

  3. Re:Who honsetlycares? by forty_two · · Score: 1, Troll

    What I care about is not having to worry about the latest VIA drivers wrecking my system or hoping the bargain motehrboard I purchased for my AMD CPU won't gie me problems in 6 months. I stick with Intel because it just plain works, no worries.



    WTF ever. The man can afford a dual Pentium 4 but needs to buy a bargain basement mobo for his AMD? YOU MEAN THERE ARE NO BARGAIN BASEMENT MOBOS FOR INTEL THAT SUCK? Gimme a break.



    Of the three boxes I run at home, one is a dual Intel, one is a pre-XP Athlon, and the other is an XP. Guess which is more stable? Answer: NONE THEY ALL RUN FINE HAHAHAHAHA I WIN.