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THG Labs In Depth With AMD Spider
The Last Gunslinger writes "Tom's Hardware Guide has published detailed results of their laboratory analysis of AMD's recently released Spider platform, including the Phenom 9500 and 9600 running on 790FX chipsets. Amongst other interesting details, the 2.4GHz Phenom 9700 has been pushed back to Q1 2008. The 2.3GHz Phenom 9600 benchmarks on average 13.5% lower than Intel's Q6600 quad-core CPU...and the MSRP for the Phenom is about 13.6% less as well. Much is made of the AMD OverDrive utility, by which the THG labs were able to OC the Spider platform by 25% (3.0GHz) using air cooling alone."
Ok, I can deal with it taking a few pages, and you wanting a few ad hits, but only taking up half of my screen width, and then only using 1/3 of the remainder for text broken by seemingly useless photos... not going to bother.
Summery 4tw
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Four graphics cards! Now that sounds like a gamer's wet dream.
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Yep, only you'll need a 2kW power supply. Can't wait to see your electric bill
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The AMD's are less powerfull then the Intel in this race. Okay, no harm done, but why on earth does AMD then price them at the same dollar for performance ratio as intel? Lets say intel charges 100 bucks for 100 performance points, AMD now says, well we can't give you those same 100 performance points, instead we can only give 80, but aren't we nice, we only charge 80 bucks for it.
Sounds nice in theory, but if I am buying a new cpu at the top of its range (and therefore paying a premium) I want to either have the highest speed OR a far better deal. Computer components often are priced on a curve, the slower, the cheaper, usually leading to a sweet spot where you get the best price for performance. Is it smart of AMD to make straighten this curve into a line? For 13% more power, intel just charges 13% more? No wonder they are losing once again, they used to be the company that was the best value for money. Perhaps they need a reality check AMD YOU ARE NO LONGER EQUAL TO INTEL, the days that your CPU's were better are over so you can't charge as much anymore.
a performance of 80 for a price of 50, now that would be a sweet, I could then reason that, well I get less power, but I save a lot of money. At this rate, I might as well buy an older intel and get a far far better deal.
It seems a pity AMD is once again second, the deals were so much better when intel and AMD where constantly at each others throat.
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You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
They used to be good, in fact they probably used to be the best. That's why they still carry some weight this long after they sold out and lost the dominance on hardware news.
Strange. I remember, not too long ago, Tom's Hardware to be as Intel-friendly as it possibly could get. This time, AMD spent their marketing money in the right places, it seems.
You seriously need to get a sense of proportion on A.) what energy supply problems our society has and B.) what stuff uses how much energy.
I'll give you a hint - no-one's going to have to give up having a ridiculous gaming computer until long after everyone's replaced their electric ovens. Things are different for servers and workstations, but the only rational reason why power consumption matters in personal gaming machines is the fact that cooling is noisy.
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