Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 10/28/2012 4:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 27 oct 12, 22:27:30, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Coming from a 2800+ which is a ~60 watt CPU, and given the fact > >> you'll never make use of more than 2 of those 8 cores, I recommend > >> a dual core AthlonII X2 @ 3.4GHz. I have the 3GHz model and the > >> 2nd core is pretty much always idle, with primary core being idle > >> most of the time as well, as is everyone's. > >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103953 > > > > Any opinion on a Core i3 (Ivy Bridge)? > > I use and promote AMD exclusively. If everyone buys Intel then AMD > exits the x86 processor business. If/when that happens, Intel has no > competition and can and will do two detrimental things to the market: > > 1. Raise prices with impunity > 2. Innovate at a lower pace, or stop innovating altogether > > If enough people buy AMD then Intel has a strong competitor. This > keeps the marketplace healthy and keeps Chipzilla from becoming a > total monopoly WRT x86.
Granted. Thats the political reason. Still I see nothing in AMD space that can compete with recent Sandybridge / Ivybridge processors in terms of computing power versus power consumption ratio. But I am happy to learn more. I think that ARM will become interesting enough to have some competition going on. And I think AMD might have something nice to offer as competition to Intel Atom CPUs. For powerful laptops and power saving desktops I think Intel Sandybridge/Ivybridge is best bet currently - except for the political dimension. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201210291915.25248.mar...@lichtvoll.de
