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Originally posted by Blackeagle
But foolish to wish to see the company fineshed off. Then Intell sets any price they want for the forseeable future, and the moment AMD goes down that will be the end of any new up grade parts for socket A.
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True. But like I said, I'm kinda over AMD. While Intel would raise prices, it would only be a matter of time before another company stepped in with a competitor. Whether it would be as good as AMD's was when the Athlon hit, that's to be seen. But stereotypically, there has never been a market where there is only one survivor (except for operating systems, and that's debatable). Like I said, I'm not wishing harm on AMD. I'm just wishing that I could keep all my components, and have AMD try and throw out a new Barton in desperation. I'll buy it and not have to go through any hassle but upgrade my CPU. Likely it will o/c well if it's a new stepping. It'll be cheap by then if it is truly an act of desparation. So I suppose that AMD's ultimate failure as a company is a biproduct of my wish, but it is not directly my wish
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Originally posted by airspirit
It would make me damn happy if I could run a dually hammer rig with PCI-X, SSE2, Hypertransport everything, and a bobblehead doll of a NVidiot to smack around occassionally. Why settle on a bean burrito at taco bell when you could get a burrito supreme and some goddam mexi fries for an extra $0.75?
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Ah but see now you're talking about a whole new motherboard... new CPUs... with all that, probably new memory too... Too complicated for a busy college student. I'm damned happy with my 2 ghz TbredB right now. I'd love it if AMD had problems with hammer in a a few months so they threw out another barton stepping at a low price to try and stay afloat. I'd snatch up a low speed one and get it to high speeds after a 20 minute CPU change job and $75 less. Your proposition doesn't exactly fit my budget...
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Originally posted by airspirit
Fsck Barton and its negligable performance boost.
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Eh I somewhat agree with that. However, if you could have a $XX TbredB or an $XX Barton, you'd probably still grab the barton. My situation assumes that by then the low speed bartons based on the new steppings would be that cheap...
So to clarify myself here, I don't want to sound like a moron... Hehe and I know your response was not a flame. Just good argument. All I'm saying is that I have a low budget. I also don't feel like taking too much time out of my life to install new drivers, deal with a buggy motherboard, or just do the actual hard labor of replacing my system base. If AMD were to stumble in hammer production and be forced to release another barton stepping, a low speed, new stepping chip sure would be a nice, overclockable guy to stick in my Socket A right now... Granted, AMD would probably be fu<ked as a company, but at least I'd be happy in the short term ...