Actually this would be good for Amd on the long term...
I think this is a good thing, that intel has this overclock-locker (hmm hehe)as a future replacement for the Multipl. lock wich is currentley used (and quite irritating as i have found out with one of my computers ,a PII333 at 5x, only 417 is possible, or 500, wich is just to high) . AMD is not stupid enough to prevent users from overclocking their cpu's, i hope .
Oke , a little story here (European situation):
1) The only intels sould right now are 300 MHz CeleronA's ,and 233 mmx socket7
2) The only people who buy CeleronA's are tweakers, gamers, performance hungry people with a small budget
3) The only reason they buy the CeleronA300 is because they got the knowledge / means to overclock the CeleronA300 to 450 MHz, and the low price of $150 (approx.)
4)The negative name of the CeleronA, and the high priced pIIs withold people from buying an Intel. Instead the K6-2 comes up in commercials with high MHz numbers, its all about the numbers for normal joe-average customer. 36x cdrom costs only $10 more than a 20 speed, a big hdd cost little more than a small one, etc. Furthermore people are proud of having "3d" in their cpu, something intel does not posses in direct form (I760 AGP)
5)Now that Asus has a good stabile SS7 solution (Both in AT and ATX formfactor ) , lots of customers tend to see AMD as a cheap high end solution, instead of the low-budget-image from a year ago.
A friend of mine working at a major hardware dealer confirmed that the CeleronA is not selling well at all, nore does the classic celeron. Low end PII's and 300/350 K6-2 seem to sell quite good indeed.
So general conclusion is that intel will loose massive market share when they clock-lock their CPU's . Bad reputation + not overclockable + high priced + lack of 3d-now leaves us to one conclusion : Amd
I myself will upgrade my current pII333@419 with BX mobo to a brandnew
K6-3 with fancy 256k l2, and hopefully a new motherboard chipset by that time.
From Holland With Love, Michael da Kota
ps. Never mind the spelling mistakes, i'm in a hurry |
