How quick we forget, AMD Use to be tops
The other night, something happened that required me to do a little research. My wife has a really old PC. I keep saying Im going to upgrade it. right now it is super slow, even for a casual PC user. She finds a lot of times she has to use my Laptop or other peoples computers to do certain things.
Her daughter was working on a school project she and couldn’t finish it up because the PC kept giving her problems. After that night, I decided to stop procrastinating and do the upgrade. All I needed was a motherboard, processor and maybe a stick of ram.
After checking Newegg, Pricewatch, and a few local stores, I remembered that I still had the P4 3.0 ghz processor from the laptop that I spilled soda on a while ago. I was thinking all I need to do is get a motherboard and a stick of ram, that should cut about 40 or 50 bucks off the price I was looking at paying. After looking for a while, I decided to check craigslist to see if there was someone in my area selling a mobo that would work with that P4 processor.
I didn’t find that but I found a guy selling an AMD Athlon 64 chip, Motherboard, a low end geforce card and 1 stick of 512 ram for just 10 buck more than I was looking to pay for the P4 compatible motherboard.
RIght then I thought “that is a good deal, but I don’t want to buy a slower CPU when I have a nice speedy one here” (Speedy is relative to what is in my wife’s current PC). I put it out of my mind and went back to looking at Motherboards for the P4 processor.
For some reason, I decided to check performances comparisons and found out that the Athlon 64 cpu I was looking at is actually faster than the P4 that I had. Then I remembered…. AMD was performance king for a while!!!
Intel was lagging behind for Id say a couple years and it wasn’t until the Core Duo and Core 2 Duo released did they get back on top. That wasn’t too long ago, but I forgot all about it.
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June 11th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
[...] How quick we forget, AMD Use to be tops For some reason, I decided to check performances comparisons and found out that the Athlon 64 cpu I was looking at is actually faster than the P4 that I had. Then I remembered…. AMD was performance king for a while! …JonesPC - http://www.jonespc.com [...]
June 12th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
once were kings
Yes amd 64’s were brilliant back in the day but since the dual core the have been left in the dust. though in my mind in a short while amd will pull something out of the proverbial hat and reclaim dominance for a while.
June 13th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
can anyone tell me whats the advantage of using centrino duo processors?
June 17th, 2008 at 11:41 am
From my understanding Centrino Duo Processors is perfect when we open multiple programs. It would run smoothly. Then again maybe im wrong
June 21st, 2008 at 7:50 pm
we don’t win the silver…we lose the gold!!
June 25th, 2008 at 10:53 am
[...] was just talking about how I forgot that not that long ago AMD was performance king. Along with that thought, it wasnt too long ago when ATI made the best video cards. Since then, [...]
June 26th, 2008 at 8:45 am
centrino duo processor has more processing power compared to P4. Its dual processing capability is ideal for graphics intensive applications and programs involving large numbers. According to me,its the only competitor for AMD Athlon perhaps
June 26th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
When I purchased my current computer AMD was still a viable option but Core and Core Duo were making their first appearance. Luckily, I knew enough to do a little research and went with a duo processor, but it was a tight race between them not too long ago.
June 30th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Perhaps AMD is little cheap but they have very poor performance. I have suffered an athelon in past and that was the worst experience.
July 20th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Right on for AMD!
I used to do a lot of video compression for steaming and AMD chips were the BEST. Leave the Pentiums in the dust!
July 21st, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Wow I had forgot about that little known fact as well. I was trying to find a replacement for my Athlon 64 but decided, for blogging and light graphics design it still does the trick. Of course I still dream of a nice quad core for programs like 3dsMax, but for now this overclocked athlon 64 will do just fine
thanks for the reminder of how fast things can change and be forgotten!
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:34 pm
I was wondering why the Pentium is getting more attention these days after reading glowing reports for AMD a while back. Thanks for straightening things out for me.