Comments on: AMD Launches Chips in a Troubled PC Market

By: Dimitrios Matsoulis

Dimitrios Matsoulis — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:53:40 +0000

Regardless of what we do and do not need -it is certain that much of the performance ot the features offered are not needed- what AMD offers is unavoidably driven by Intel, its main competitor and threat.
We should be thankful that after the recent rough period for its business AMD can still come up with new products. Intel only woke up when AMD became better in terms of speed, price and power consumption. Now it is exactly the other way round.
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By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:23:39 +0000

Jesse, I will take your word for it. I know you don’t need a quad core for media, but there are always people who will by a 12-horsepower engine when 6 horses will do. AMD is really pushing the graphics on the 780 and 790 chipsets, which it suggested would pair well with any of the Phenom chips.

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:14:42 +0000

Stacey, you don’t need a quad-core to make a media player. It is much more cost and power efficient to couple a low-end dual-core with a low-end video card that can accelerate video codecs. You don’t even need the video card any more, as the newest generation of integrated graphics from AMD (RS780) and Nvidia (8200/8300) due an excellent job of acceleration and even Intel’s soon to be released G45 chipset should be decent in the configurations that come with a GAM X4500HD. Sticking with AMD, get yourself a BE2300 processor (45W and < $100) and a motherboard based on the 780G chipset (<$100) and you have a combination that can play anything.

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:45:33 +0000

BPL, I think AMD’s efforts after the ATI acquisition is to create a well priced chipset for a home PC that can also act as a media server. And we all know how successful those efforts have been.

By: BPL

BPL — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:02:24 +0000

I think AMD should focus on notebook’s chip market, since in the future there will be less and less people to use desktop, unless you are a die-hard gamer.