AMD Sells Out

"Uh-oh, looks like AMD doesn't have an unlimited amount of chips" Jesus, a genius is born! AMD has a fucking fraction of Intel's capacity, and Intel can't keep up.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha...
First- # 11- Eat it. Intel has better chips on the market now, and the "thunderbird" benchmarks we've seen @ HardOCP (assuming they ARE real)have not been too impressive.
And the Willamette....I so can't wait for that baby!
Also- It's no wonder those Intels went faster, as they are the one's avalible for Dual and Quad Systems (okay, so that prolly isn't a reason, but I love my Dual 700's @ 868 : ) That's which means 868x2=1736x80%(that's the average performance for non-smp apps)=1389 mhz...

No, I'm not an Intel fanboy, I go with what is the best product (that's why I owned a Athlon for about 2 months). Cheap chips, fast chips, overclockable chips...gimme, gimme, gimme.

Stupid Megahertz wars. Both AMD and Intel try to rush the latest and greatest xxx Mhz chip out the door and they wonder why they have trouble meeting demands. Just buy 2 knotches down from the fastest Mhz and get better RAM or disk drive.

hey, i got a question for you all. I plan on upgrading this summer and im leaning towards AMD, what would be the best motherboard to get then? are there any new AMD motherboards coming out around that time?

That new Asus board, forget what the hell it is, is supposed to be really good and stable. The one that uses the VIA KX133 chipset.

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Intel would like you to believe that there is a huge unexpected demand for their chips which is why they are having trouble delivering. The truth is, worldwide demand for CPUs is not much more than it was last year at this time. What's really going on is - for the first time in it's history - Intel is having trouble manufacturing at the higher clock speeds. That's because they are being forced by competition from AMD to put out products at higher clock speeds than they really have the capability to make in order to save face.

I take a huge amount of pleasure in all this because I dislike Intel almost as much as I dislike Microsoft. Why?

1. Clock locking. It's a matter of principle that if I buy something and own it I should be able to do whatever I want with it and that includes over-clocking. If I want to burn my cpu up, that's my business. Intel has the arrogance to give me permission to run it at a certain speed. If I want a faster cpu I have to give them more money for permission to run - what is sometimes essentially an identical processor - at a faster speed. They say clock-locking is to prevent remarking which is only partially truthful. They have the ability to put a unique serial number into every cpu. They could easily put a clock speed indentifying number in as well to see what speed the cpu was sold as if they wanted to.

2. Truth in advertising. The ad campaign for the PIII had some stuff in it that goes way beyond distortion and exaggeration to the point that it's just lies. "Chat rooms come to life in 3d". Crap like that. They were trying to get Mr. and Mrs. Newbie-wanting-to-buy-their-first-computer-to-get-on-the-Internet to spring for the high profit PIII instead of the cheaper Celeron on K6. They've lied before. In 1997 they said MMX technology would give smoother video and richer multimedia. They were lies trying to drive the upgrade cycle.

In summary: I fucking hate Intel and hope AMD kicks their ass up and down the street.

fucking expensive shit. any online dvd sellers that ship to canada (preferably free?)

just a question, but do any of you guys know around what time they said the new chips from intel and amd are coming out(I forgot there names) ?

bored.
i know this has been done before, but... any dvd suggestions?

I am happy with my p3-650 256k L2 on chip cache 0.18 micron die cpu,I have no need for an AMD cpu . On the other hand my nephew's love them to death ,which I don't understand. And on my other hand I am waiting for the price of the p3-733 to drop to around 200 us of a dollars .

Intel has had some pretty large demands, but I can't believe they'd have a need to ramp up with all the Fab's they've got (Don't ask me how many, I think I heard it's twice what AMD has or something.) Demand has been pretty high lately for both companies, shown by AMD's record post Christmas seasonal sales, but Intel has had trouble since pre-Christmas (many manufacture's lost sales during the season). Intel has had continual shortages/production problems since the release of cumine. Don't ask me why, no one really knows for sure except Intel.

Anyway, if Intel is ramping anything, it's ramping up production for Wilamette for a surprise smack on AMD, that's the only thing I can think of.

Not surprising, expect that production of the Regular Athlon and K6-2 has decreased in order to ramp up production of Thunderbirds and Spitfires. AMD doesn't have the Fab's that Intel has.

Time to bust out the ol' abacus

doesn't bother me, already recieved my chip :)