Am Dienstag, 29. Mai 2012, 08:58:52 schrieb Michael Mol: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:30 AM, microcai <micro...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > 2012/5/29 Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> > > [snip] > > >> I'm mostly looking forward to Bulldozer support and RDRAND. > > > > LOL I thought no one buys it > > The average decent-quality AMD-supporting motherboard that supports > the level of contemporary features I want costs 100-130 USD, and I > generally go for a CPU in the range of $150-$180. So that's a total > ticket price of about $250-$310 USD. I've been using AMD machines in > my home for five or six years, now; generally, when one box gets > upgraded, parts of it (especially the CPU) get put into a different > box to upgrade that. That hasn't been possible on Intel. > > An Intel-supporting motherboard with the level of contemporary > features I want becomes my first hurdle. Just for the base set of > features I'd want (6 current-speed SATA ports, max "supported" RAM of > 32GB, LGA1155), I'm looking at $230 and up. For a processor? > $200-$320. And I'd want an i7, not an i5, so we're talking upper > range. > > Yes, the early Bulldozers don't measure up to the Phenom II, but > amdfam10 is going away, and Bulldozer will get past that mark. Rather > similar how Intel's early NetBurst cores didn't manage to beat Pentium > IIIs, but later ones did. (Yeah, NetBurst eventually bit the dust, > and for good reason. I have to think, though, that a lot of what Intel > learned with NetBurst went into preparing them for Sandy Bridge's > incredible overclocking range.) > > So, yeah, while I'd love a performance-grade Intel desktop box, it's > going to be hard to justify the price ticket. Even if I don't manage > to get an IvyBridge desktop box, I do want to get my hands on an > IvyBridge i3 motherboard; that RDRAND instruction is going to be sweet > in a network gateway machine, and the power consumption deliciously > low.
and maybe buying intel is not a good idea at all: http://semiaccurate.com/2012/05/15/intel-small-business-advantage-is-a- security-nightmare/ -- #163933
