Posted 06/18/2009 at 02:08:04am

ORRRR....

they could have released some developer tools and let the modding community have at it. Sometime the stuff modders dream up are better than what the Original developer could have ever hoped of coming up with. 

Posted 01/10/2009 at 10:30:03am

Irrelevant? And with that comment sir, you show you truly can break the laws of physics by sucking and blowing at the same time.

 2003 build: Intel p4 2.8ghz, 1 gb memory, just tossed in a radeon 9300 AGP vid card last year. Still relevant to this day. Handles it's fair share of workload to this day. 

 2006 build: Core 2 duo e6400, 1gb memory, and an nvidian card. Irrelevant for all the reasons you state Amd is best. This is the year I nearly went with AMD. Once again thanks to looking at the speed king, A minor upgrade and it could probably give AMD newest a run for the money at the same price. 3 years later.

Both builds you now deem irrelevant for the very same reason you deem AMD relevant today? How odd.

2009 build: Looking like another intel machine. Why does speed matter again? Time will tell indeed. As i said before I get a whole system every 3 yrs. However, every year I plop $500 in upgrades, whether it be vid card cpu monitor memory hard drive whatever.

 If you want to debate relevancy of processors over time (intel vs. AMD) take it to the forums. I simply made a comment about how it used to be a close call between the two companies for speed king. I follow the speed king's for my money. 

 Please don't attack those of us who are NOT looking for then next best processor for their e-machines. Not everyone is in the same boat as you. 

I follow Maximum Pc's logo: minimum BS. And because of those ingorant remarks to prove your fandom you just rose the depth of BS to knee-high, so I'll end it since you cannot. 

Posted 01/09/2009 at 01:43:34pm

Yeah UNLESS your someone like me who buys a 3-5 yr system. THEN it matters who fastest at the time. And when i go to replace my system I ask myself: do you want to nickel and dime yourself on an annual "budget" or just go all out with something that is gonna remain relevant for the next 2 yrs? Sticking with AMD is more like a subscription:

You pay less, get less and have to do it more often just to keep up on a very regular basis. OR you can simply budget out $2500 get a nice Intel system and be good to go for much longer with less investment over the long-haul.

All you guys still showing love to AMD need to think about that particular set-up. Imagine if you built a system 2 yrs ago with top of the line CPU, GPU, and memory, and motherboard. Now imagine if it was an intel dual core versus an AMD dual core. Who's gonna be the first one buying the chip?

For extreme gamers? nah, I just want my dvd movies burned sometime today. And if a new game comes out I just mite want to play it instead of watching a slideshow. (I know, I know, that's the graphics card. But the CPU IS relevant as well).

Ultimately it boils down to that little hourglass symbol you see when you open a window or how fast the bar fills up when your installing a new program. If you like that little hourglass, AMD is for you.

Maybe, just to show everyone the speed difference MaxPC can do real world everyday computing on video and show everyone why speed matters.  

Posted 01/08/2009 at 03:09:07am

You know, the benchmarks used to at least have AMD win a couple categories because they were more "efficient". And back then they used the hell out of it, and we all remember it. Amd was cheaper and slighlty slower than intel with the benchmarks almost split. Oftentimes with intel only "winning" by the margin of error. I never was a fanboy of either company, but seriously when your new model of chip isn't designed to make a modest attempt at being the speed king spmething wrong. But then again, shortly after AMD bought out ATI didn't we see ATI do the same thing? There first board's were only meant to compete with Nvidida's lower end parts. So who really know's. Maybe they're just taking baby steps like they did with ATI? If the gap in performance remains like this for much longer Intel's could eventually just say why bother getting faster?

Posted 12/23/2008 at 02:48:40am

Man those were the days! sitting in front of the telvision with the radioshack Tandy computer just typing away and PRAYING no one stepped on the power chord, lol. Even remember my first cassette tape "hard drive", and even later on connecting to the "internet" with my kick ass 2400 baud rate modem! 

 yeah those were the good old days... 

Posted 12/14/2008 at 11:42:46pm

That's exactly what I was thinking. I STILL have my tungsten E2 pda. And everytime I whup it out the first thing I am asked is "Is that an Iphone?" no nubz, this is ipods daddy. Since everything is bluetooth now all it lacks is teh built in phone. no problem there as i just 'tooth it up to my cell anyways for that.