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On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 10:07 -0700, Grant wrote: |
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> I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating |
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> AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much |
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> faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys |
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> think? |
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> - Grant |
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I work at the German Aerospace Center (basically the German NASA). We've |
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been using AMD CPUs for a long time on our clusters and workstations |
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because they were not only cheaper but also faster on floating point |
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operations whereas Intel was faster on integer operations. Now we are |
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switching to Intel because AMD lost this advantage and has problems |
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delivering the ordered number of CPUs. |
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I personally stick with AMD because they have a factory in Germany and I |
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don't want Intel to rule the market as they've done before AMD came up |
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with the Athlon XP. |
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