With Intel gaining ground with their Duo Core technology, what is your perception of AMD - are they better in some aspects, or worse?
Intel right now, have dominated almost all aspects of PC uses. AMD however, have fallen behind, but they still have a grip on the consumers on a budget offering pretty good cheap chips (X2 3600 for 80 bucks). Another point for AMD is that they still offer affordable SLi, with SLi ready boards starting at just 100 bucks while intel boards with 680 and 650i chipsets are still hovering around the high 200 and 300 dollar range (aussie dollars of course). The real hopes for AMD to catch up with intel, I believe, is to start churning out some heavyweights that match the E6850 (drop the prices of the X2 6000 around 50-70 dollars cheaper), but for cheaper, or, produce quad-cores that perform well above the current intel quads.
penryn and barcelona war will show the results but now low budget gamers choose amd, the others are buying intel you can find a sli board in turkey for 150 dollars (u.s. dollars of course) with this much taxes (kdv, ötv etc. they just make them as they want for ex. kdv is %18 above the overall price) it asus branded 650sli board you can find it easily huh?
Intel came back, and right now they do have the better product, not to mention a monster overclocker. Don't forget that until Core 2 came out, AMD was handing it to Intel for about 3 years. No company, even the mighty Intel's and IBM's are on top of the game all the time. I'm sure AMD will come out with something that can best Intel at some point, so I'm not worried about AMD being down for the count. If they're looking at now, and only focusing on the present, then they should be crapping their pants. However, they're looking at the long term, not about every battle that comes up with Intel or nVidia.
