Re:I cant really see who this chip is targeted at
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...... traditionally yes I agree, however many if not most gamers in the know realize that teh K7 benches higher than intel right now. yes it needs a new motherboard, but so do most CPU upgrades, if you buy a motherboard and CPU new then you usually don't have settings available for the new CPUs available in a year and would need a mobo with higher clock settings etc. I agree there, right now graphics and video people are going mostly with the "multimedia systems" however intel does _NOT_ have better FPU performance than the K7, the recent benchmarks have shown that over and over again.. have you just been ignoring the computer news lately???? actually most die hard gamers don't believe in such a thing as too expensive. as for the history of bad FPU and incompatabilities and crashs etc... those are history, ever since the K6-2 AMD has been producing nothing but stable processors that are completely compatable with absolutely everything and the K6-2 FPU is comparable with the Pentium 2, K6-3 is comparable with the pentium III the K7 just kicks the crap out of everything by intel even on AMD's legendary weakness of old let history be history, if you stay in the past in the computer market you get left behind servers.... what kind of servers? file servers?? those are typically VAX or low end (read old) intel... file servers don't really have to worry about high powered processors. office workstations... well those will probably be OEM systems that they can get at the best price performance ratio or that the person who is in charge of ordering thought looked the neatest;-p not much real thought is put into this unfortunately. consumer boxes? well maybe. some consumers bought the new Pentum 2 400's when they first came out. they may buy these now. and chances are they will just use them to do taxes and email on. never underestimate the stupidity of the average human finally yes AMD does have a supply problem history lets hope that remains history but its too recent to discount as of yet. there are some problems with buying the K7s (supply of motherboards and systems etc mostly) but these concerns are only minor if concerns at all.
I am a true agnostic, under the definition I find most accurate Agnostic = no religious faith..... period Aethiest = faith in nothing, where nothing means a faith in no supernatural or godlike being or afterlife. I am not however like many, I research many religions mostly out of curiousity and have made it a hobby to debate theologically with people of all faiths or lack thereof. you (spinkham) sound like someone who I would be interested in talking with at length. if you read this I would appreciate it if you would drop me a line, same goes for anyone else interested in debating or discussing theology or for that matter any topic philosophical. you can contact me through AskaniF@Netscape.net or through my ICQ number 5636051 chances are I won't check any responses to this article that are not sent directly to me via email or ICQ so if you want to say something back to me use one of those two. thank you
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...... traditionally yes I agree, however many if not most gamers in the know realize that teh K7 benches higher than intel right now. yes it needs a new motherboard, but so do most CPU upgrades, if you buy a motherboard and CPU new then you usually don't have settings available for the new CPUs available in a year and would need a mobo with higher clock settings etc. I agree there, right now graphics and video people are going mostly with the "multimedia systems" however intel does _NOT_ have better FPU performance than the K7, the recent benchmarks have shown that over and over again.. have you just been ignoring the computer news lately???? actually most die hard gamers don't believe in such a thing as too expensive. as for the history of bad FPU and incompatabilities and crashs etc... those are history, ever since the K6-2 AMD has been producing nothing but stable processors that are completely compatable with absolutely everything and the K6-2 FPU is comparable with the Pentium 2, K6-3 is comparable with the pentium III the K7 just kicks the crap out of everything by intel even on AMD's legendary weakness of old let history be history, if you stay in the past in the computer market you get left behind servers.... what kind of servers? file servers?? those are typically VAX or low end (read old) intel... file servers don't really have to worry about high powered processors. office workstations... well those will probably be OEM systems that they can get at the best price performance ratio or that the person who is in charge of ordering thought looked the neatest ;-p not much real thought is put into this unfortunately. consumer boxes? well maybe. some consumers bought the new Pentum 2 400's when they first came out. they may buy these now. and chances are they will just use them to do taxes and email on. never underestimate the stupidity of the average human finally yes AMD does have a supply problem history lets hope that remains history but its too recent to discount as of yet. there are some problems with buying the K7s (supply of motherboards and systems etc mostly) but these concerns are only minor if concerns at all.
I am a true agnostic, under the definition I find most accurate Agnostic = no religious faith..... period Aethiest = faith in nothing, where nothing means a faith in no supernatural or godlike being or afterlife. I am not however like many, I research many religions mostly out of curiousity and have made it a hobby to debate theologically with people of all faiths or lack thereof. you (spinkham) sound like someone who I would be interested in talking with at length. if you read this I would appreciate it if you would drop me a line, same goes for anyone else interested in debating or discussing theology or for that matter any topic philosophical. you can contact me through AskaniF@Netscape.net or through my ICQ number 5636051 chances are I won't check any responses to this article that are not sent directly to me via email or ICQ so if you want to say something back to me use one of those two. thank you