6 Jun
2013
6 Jun
'13
11:22 a.m.
On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Peter Corlett wrote:
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 06:10:56AM -0400, Jason Howe wrote:
[...]
That particular stumble by Intel gave AMD enough of a competitive advantage
that we have x86-64 now, which has a much nicer instruction set than the plain
x86. Otherwise we might have ended up with Itanic dominating 64 bit computing.
But then Intel redeemed themselves by making the Core series of processors,
saving us from cheap and nasty AMD chipsets. So we got the best of both worlds!
I still don't trust moden chipsets for some reason. ;)
I also don't trust a board I can flex. If I try to flex a PII board, it
will likely kill someone. ;)
(I'm quite pleased with the performance and
stability of my current i5 system.)
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