Intel or AMD?

[dahuman]

Squilliam said:

dahuman said:

Squilliam said:

dahuman said:

I only change my machine every 4 years or more, prolly a non issue lol, usually just video card upgrades these days.

I recently replaced an Athlon X2 64 with a Phenom 2 which was a full two generations ahead and it worked with a simple bios flash which turned my laggin HTPC into a fire breathing console eating beast. That was about 4 years and it saved me about $250 in mobo, ram.

see, I got dicked over by AMD with the 939 socket which was right before AM2. I turned that x2 4400 into a MPC with HD3850(AGP!!! lawl) taking care of the DxVA though, so that's all good. See where I'm coming from now?

I understand... I missed the 939/754 fiasco fortunately. However present i7 owners are dicked with a motherboard which won't support the next generation and the i5 owners are dicked with a motherboard which won't go higher than 4 cores. That is the present reason, however Intel also went through multiple 754 revisions which prevented people from upgrade to later versions which mitigates how bad AMD was at that time somewhat although it was bad which I will admit.

I'm just used to socket changes by now, been dealing with it since the early 90s and the parts I have usually last more than 10 years so they are all used for something else after they are retired from my main machine for at least awhile before I smash them with a big ass hammer.