Replies to post #24855 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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If you look at the fact that AMD gained market share you miss the fact that Intel was severly capacity constrained during the run up in AMD market share. The Inq even reported they took some Pentium IIs out of storage and had resellers offer them. Gaining market share when your competitor is topped out and the market is growing is no big deal.

[Jules2]

Posted by: dougSF30
In reply to: I_banker who wrote msg# 24850 Date:1/29/2004 10:48:55 PM
Post #of 24949


I_Banker, I think you're wrong.

Look at history. Look at late 99, early 2000. AMD had nothing unique then. They had a performance lead. Intel had all the marketing dollars in the world, and that didn't stop AMD from doing very well.

CPUs are not like detergents and mayonnaise.

Good luck.


Doug

My first aircraft was a Piper Colt. I loved it! Had the few primary guages needed to fly it. I added a radio later.

Because of my interest in aviation I became a Flight Sim addict. I purchased and installed FS-2004 on my machine w/A7v-266-E based 2600xp, 512mb, it ran OK. I later purchased an addon published by PMDG. It slowed my rig down badly. The high price/performance addons require a tremendous ammount of computational power. XPlane is another that requires a top notch machine to run properly.
I built a machine for my son in-law, a A64-3200, MSI Neo mobo w/1gig memmory. I installed the Flight Sims and addons. What a difference!!!

I am waiting for socket 939. At that point in time I will definatly build a new machine and add it to my LAN just for the purpose of running Flight Sims.
The A64 runs the Sim's so smoothly, it's simply amazing.

Regards

Jules