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Why I like AMD and Win 7.

I was loyal to AMD until Intel released the C2D. Before that I was loyal to Intel before AMD released the Athlon.

reply to Bagnon
Ahh,

I love my AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition!

Performance is most excellent with gaming, and my heavy applications.

Windows 7 x64 tops it all off.

Bravo!

reply to Bagnon
I just installed a 965 Black Edition last night. Can't wait to try it out.

As far as Windows 7, it would be hard to go back to XP. It is an all around amazing OS.
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You paid ~$150 for AMD PII 550BE + ASUS M4A79XTD motherboard + OCZ DDR3 (unspecified speed of 1066, 1333, 1600 or higher),…..? If not what was your total?

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Iv been running AMD since my first 550mhz AMD (think it was a k6 of some sort) the only non AMD in my house in a Cheap Deal that has a Intel P4 (was a celly but we upgraded it) any pc i build i use AMD.

My System has a Phenom II x3 720 BE with unlocked 4th core and OCed to 3.4ghz on air running at its max voltage of 1.55v.
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ASUS M4A79T Deluxe | AMD Phenom II x3 720 BE AM3 w/4 Cores @ 3.41Ghz(OC) | 4Gb DDR3 Memory @ 1600mhz | Sapphire ATI HD4870 1GB 800mhz/1000mhz(OC) | 2x500GB HDD's Raid 0 | Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Build 7600 (RTM) | Windstream DSL 12m (14.9m Sync)/766k

reply to Bagnon
I have been an AMD fan since I built my first PC using a K2 350MHz CPU.

reply to Bagnon
my next upgrade will be Intel Core i-series and my current main rig is q6600. before i5, i would have gotten 965BE over c2q 9000 series. my server runs x2 775 which is a solid cpu for what i paid.

i love amd/ati and amd cpus have a great value, but until they have chips to compete with the better intel parts, i wont be putting them into my main pc.

im also a little disapointed in the AMD Neo. Neo laptops are a little too pricey for my tastes versus Atom. i know they were making it to bridge the gap between Atom and reg laptop CPUs, but Neos are selling for the same as regular laptops. i'd rather have a $300-400 neo with 13" screen and still have the 5 hrs battery life. a $250 atom netbook is just too cheap to pass up for this niche market.
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reply to Bagnon
What I like about AMD is that much of my hardware is still relevant after years of use. My old Athlon XP 1900+ and Athlon XP 3200+ systems have found new life as Windows Home Servers that have served me and my family well. Sadly they are nearing the end of their usefulness in this respect but what a run they had! I could probably still use them as test boxes to bang on whenever I want to try something before trying it on a production server but with virtualization there is much less of a need for this.

My old Athlon 64 X2 4800+ and X2 3800+ systems are still going strong too. Very, very relevant hardware. The Athlon 64 X2 4800+ has been reassigned as the new Windows Home Server and the X2 3800+ will likely be reassigned soon too.

My newest systems are comprised of a Core 2 Quad Q6600, Core i7 860 and Core i7 920 but I could see my way to a Six Core AMD build if the cards lineup right. I have no loyalty whatsoever but if it makes sense to me at the time I’m onboard.

reply to Bagnon
Right now I'm very happy with my Phenom II x4 940BE and my little Linux server is a 4850e (113W under full load). Both have served me well. Before this I had an X2 6000+ which ran wonderfully for years.
Here at the office we are now using 6 new desktops based around the Phenom II 905e, I love them completely silent.

Someone here mentioned longevity:)

My Thunderbird 1.4 lives with my Father-in-Law doing Windows XP duty.
Older Athlon X2 4400+ lives at a friends house and still pushes a lot of modern games
The 6000+ is now my little brothers main PC.
We retired the K6 2 450 after 8 years.. We needed real time trans-coding of media to serve the PS3.
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reply to Bagnon
It's funny, I always used to buy AMD since the price was cheaper and they were not too far behind Intel.

But now I will only buy Intel CPU for my main gaming machine. Got a quad Q6600 at the moment, but will upgrade to i7 soon.

Then same thing with video cards, I used to buy only Radeon, but then switched to Nvidia when they started dominating with the GTX cards.

But now that AMD bought ATI, the Radeon cards are back on top!

So this leads to the best of both worlds. Intel CPU i7 Motherboards now support both SLI AND Crossfire X, so people can use an Intel CPU and get a high end Radeon card with plans to Crossfire it in the near future when prices drop for the second card purchase.

Honestly, you really can't go wrong either way. A lot of people just have a personal preference and will buy that brand.

reply to Bagnon
So who here is looking forward to the AMD Phenom II 6 Series “Thuban” (6 Core):

»www.techpowerup.com/117758/AMD_P···led.html

1075T - 3.00 GHz
1055T - 2.80 GHz
1035T - 2.60 Ghz

If the price is right I could see getting one,…..

reply to Bagnon
If not for AMD, we might still be paying $500 for mainstream Pentium processors (which is about what a brown box Pentium II 400 went for in 1998--and it gets uglier when you adjust for inflation). I don't think there's really any way to convey just how big the Athlon was when it was first released, unless you were actually involved in PC building at the time. The K6-2 was a good warning shot (enough to convince Intel to put serious effort into the Celeron that powered my very first custom build), but the Athlon was what made it possible for a jobless teenager (later college student) like me to put high performance processors in my various builds.

AMD didn't stop there, either, because the Athlon line merely got better and better. For years afterwards, AMD was not only the performance leader, but often beat Intel on pricing as well. My second build used a "coppermine" Pentium 3 700 (because it allowed me to save money by recycling my slot 1 motherboard--and it was a superb chip regardless), but after that I myself used nothing but AMD processors for six years (until the Core 2 was released).

Yeah, the Core line gets a lot of attention now but the Phenom II is still a very competitive mainstream gaming processor, and a wonderful bang for the buck. Besides--in the computer industry, things can and do change practically overnight.
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reply to Bagnon
I kind of like the idea that one might be able to buy a lesser cheaper Phenom II once the new cores come out and be able to unlock the extra cores for a total of 6.

reply to Octavean

A rose by any other name,……

Anyway, I was under the impression that “Thuban” was a code name not a marketing name. As long as it’s a fast, powerful and cheap line of chips I couldn’t care less what they call it