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Originally posted by Gm2™@Dec 10 2007, 06:17 PM
How do AMD deserve sales that hit the roof? All they have done in recent history is copy off intel, released mediocre CPUs and uneffective revisions on the x86 architecture, relied on other companies for decent motherboards chipsets and paid way over the going rate for a graphics company who released one graphics card architecture since 2000 that beat the competition (9700 series). 
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I was not talking about gaming systems, GM. The more recent cpu's are excellent for
non-gaming configurations.
If they really copy Intel that much, why are Intel chips creating so much heat compared to AMD chips? An office pc that is noisy (because of the fan(s)), is not comfortable to work with. And when you are using your gaming pc for office tasks (or let it stand idle), then your cpu should clock down. Intel chips don't, while AMD cpu's do. So I think we can not call this "copy and paste".
Ok, a lot of AMD stuff is crap, but it is the same in case of Intel. Something that is depending on models and marketsegments, are you "generalising" to the entire brand.
Several tests in Dutch computer magazines, seem to indicate that Radeon cards are not that bad at all. It is a matter of plusses and minusses, so I think you cannot say 1 card is way above the others. And the issues with DX 10 / Vista these days, make it hard to determine which hardware sucks the most.