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To: Wolff who wrote (95895)1/13/2000 2:05:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Wolff, <AMD grew strong on the sub-1000 class PCs with the K6 series.>

And lost that strength as of last year when Intel went aggressive with Celeron. Why do you think AMD has switched focus from the low-end to the high-end? It's not just because they wanted to be "processor macho." Rather, it's a matter of survival for AMD who has been losing a lot of money for the past several years.

<The AMD Athlon also is the overclocker CPU of choice too.>

So what? Overclockers make up, what, like 0.1% of the entire market of PC buyers? Besides, most overclockers do it for economic reasons, not performance reasons. They don't want to spend mucho moohla for the top-of-the-line processor. Rather, they'd prefer buying a lower speed grade at a lower price, then running that to the same speeds as the top-of-the-line that they could have bought for much more.

<Besides all this I think the edge has been taken off Processor speed and given to the Video Card.>

Perhaps, but I wouldn't want to pair up a high-end video card with a not-so-high-end processor. Even the nVidia GeForce 256 with its integrated T&L engine still needs a fast CPU in order to demonstrate performance scalability.

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