On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Christian Baer < christian.b...@uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> Most of these components aren't all that thrilling (because they will > run with just about anything), but you are welcome to comment on them if > you think I could/should rethink an aspect. Remember that I live in > Germany and my choice fell on things that I can easily get on the German > market. I took a look at the costs and the prices that Intel wants for > their CPUs and mainboards just blew my socks off! Therefore, I decided > that this will be an AMD-computer (again). > I'm not sure where the power/performance/price ratio is at currently, but it wasn't that long ago purchasing an intel was a much better deal long term. It was something like it took a year and half of an AMD and intel cpu idling to draw even in total price all the while having a much greater performance potential with Intel. I say this as someone who hopes AMD will succeed. There is much more to it than just raw upfront cost. -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
