Pentium 5

[Clements]

Well, the $778 Athlon64 FX-53 is currently kicking the ~$900 P4 Extreme Edition 3.4GHz in all sorts of gaming benchmarks, and I'm extemely happy with my 3200+ processor like I was with my 1800+ processor before it. Go AMD - if it weren't for ignorants who just buy from PC World and don't customise it for themselves, Intel wouldn't be having such a clear lead, and the Prescott is indeed a flop since the older Northwoods are generally faster and cheaper.

 

[revl8er]

Athlon kicks ass right now. I believe in the future, Intel will completely be dominated in every way by Amd. My Athlon 3200+ rules and I will never go to intel for anything.

 

[Doomulation]

Well, if I'm correct, companies still buys intel's stupid processors, hence the higher price. So, I don't really expect them to go out of buisness anytime soon. And it would probably be a bad matter, too, as if intel is out of buisness, AMD could raise their prices.

 

[ackmondual]

^^ that and alot off ppl still buy prebuilts. Even tho alot of prebuilts now offer AMD PCs, most ppl looking for prebuilts will still get Intels because they're pretty much a household name at this day in age. Just like how they wouldn't consider buildilng their own system for various reasons, they'll also forgo AMDs for Intels.

 

[NeTo]

Missinformation is also a deciding factor when buying a processor

I have read tons of times in the papers, well and friends, that their "Amd celeron" processors rock. Or that they can't buy AMD, since they're buggy and damage sooner. And the list goes on and on...

 

[Falcon4ever]

my duron 1200 was fast enough to run 1964 & pj64 at fullspeed =|

 

[Shin_Gouki]

@Clements
nah Clements you should say so
the "P5" is for sure no flop it is just starting. I remember good the times when P4 was announced i think it was arround the time p3 reached 1GHz and the p4 was to be starting with 1.3 or 1.4
and everyone was in the beginning so depressed because it did very bad against AMD and even against P3...
lets wait (like always in this business ) a little and see how the p5 is doing later with more "hzz".
But of course this will quite soon have an end (i guess 5 years or so) , i really hope that chip manufactures start as soon as possible to go for other ways to make CPUs more efficent then just by increasing the clockspeed.
but this is of course business which means keeping tech level as low as the competition it allows.
Also i realy don´t like the development of CPUs and ESPECIALLY GPUs regarding Powerconsuming, they are in my opinion jsut insane.. WAY TOO MUCH!!
But companys like transmeta which realy try something diffrent are struggeling low, why? because we are of course seeker of power, arn´t we?
^_~
no realy im working with an 1 GHz transmeta CPU tablet PC ... and its slow..-_- but it is fanless! and i think the power cunsumtion is VERY LOW.. so as a portable download station
(also like the new speedstep feature of AMD64) but i think im going off topic..

wbr Shin Gouki