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The Chip That Changed the World: AMD's 64-bit FX-51, Ten Years Later
Dputiger writes "It's been a decade since AMD's Athlon 64 FX-51 debuted — and launched the 64-bit x86 extensions that power the desktop and laptop world today. After a year of being bludgeoned by the P4, AMD roared back with a vengeance, kicking off a brief golden age for its own products, and seizing significant market share in desktops and servers."
Although the Opteron was around before, it cost a pretty penny. I'm not sure it's fair to say that the P4 was really bludgeoning the Athlon XP though (higher clock speeds, but NetBurst is everyone's favorite Intel microarchitecture to hate). Check out the Athlon 64 FX review roundup from 2003.
And then you end up either with an i7 4770 which has a locked multiplier, or a 4770K which doesn't do VT-d. Then you realize that there is no Intel CPU that'll do both. So then you start looking at AMD, in the hope that they don't pull shit like that with their CPU models. And then you're way over your hour or two budget.
They swooped in when Intel was being stupid, made the best chips in the world... then committed suicide and
If, by committed suicide, you mean that suffered when intel bribed people like Dell not to use the clearly superior products and so lots out on many billions of sales and hence the crucial R&D advantage, then yeah sure suicide.
Assisted suicide.
Like assisted like throwing a healthy happy person off a clifff.
haven't built a competitive chip in 3 years. Sad times...
Depends what for. For games, intel seem to be better IF you're prepared to buy a separate GPU. If you look on the Linux, not Window centric benchmarks, the top end AMD ones often lie somewhere between the top end i5 and the top end i7.
Sometimes they lose out sometimes thy beat the i7s.
For the kind of stuff I do, they're very competitive.
But if you play skyrim, then no. But an i5 and an external graphics card.
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