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Chrizum said:

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Chrizum said:
Pretty good, but ditch the AMD and go Intel Core 2 Duo. It's cheaper and has much better performance.

For instance, I have a E6600 that runs at 2.4Ghz and it kicks the 5200+'s butt.

 

Where are you buying an E6600 for less than $66? 

Good find. The E6600 is an old model, here in my country it's not even sold anymore. There are better core 2 duo's than the E6600 for a smaller price. I was just trying to say Intel's CPU's at the moment have a better price/performance ratio.

The E6600 was a beast at the time I bought it. Overclocked it to 2.7Ghz and it's still going strong!

 

Eh, the 6400+ is pretty much a dead match for the E6600 at nearly identical performance and price.  Until recently AMD honestly owned the price/performance market but Intel has certainly made major progress and things are pretty much indistinguishable now until you hit the high end market where Intel still rules the roost..although not by quite as much as they did 6 months ago.

The restructuring AMD is dealing with could cost them depending on how it applies in a practical sense to the R&D departments, so Intel may very well put some more distance on the high end market where the constant requirement to be moving forward may be interrupted for AMD.  But that shouldn't have an impact on their ability to compete in the low & mid-range markets until they hit full stride again (if they slow down at all, its unclear right now what it actually means)