Kmarion wrote:
I think AMD is getting desperate to release something to the enthusiast but unfortunately Intel has trumped them again. (So it would seem, this is preliminary)
Desperate would seem to be an understatement.
I've been an AMD fan for as long as I've had a PC (~1993). I can remember when running AMD was a small sacrifice in performance to gain a huge advantage in price, not too many years afterwards AMD began to excell in the performance arena and eventually held both the performance AND price advantage (ahh...those were the days.....). Not so long ago, AMD's performance advantage led them to increase prices exhorbitantly.
Now we find ourselves on the other side of the coin. Intel chips are better, cheaper and more efficient. AMD has drastically cut prices (though not enough in my opinion) but the wheels are turning. These competitions between major players (AMD/Intel, ATI/Nvidia) are the best thing we consumers have going for us, if it were not for one or the other, innovation would grow stale and pricing would outpace performance gains.
Sometimes it's a real pain in the ass trying to keep up with the tech. but on the other hand, we would not be where we are at today without these battles between them.
It's a goddamn good time to be a gamer eh?