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"Tony Hill" wrote in message
... Actually, I think the overall total for that one particular week was Intel sold only 61% of all CPUs, and AMD sold between 37-38% of all CPUs. If that is indeed accurate, that would be VERY good news for AMD! However I'd be extremely skeptical of that number, that would be more than double the amount of chips that AMD was selling just a couple of months earlier. If AMD managed even 20% of the total CPU market for the week they were doing well, but I'd be surprised if the managed anything more. Well, let's remember one thing, these are all figures for a single _week_ of production, not an entire month, let alone an entire quarter, let alone an entire year. I think AMD can handle an extra large order for a single week at the very least. Besides, the article never really suggested whether AMD took that extra large share of the week due to much greater demand for its products or simply because the overall market just shrank, during that week. I suspect that it's mostly that it was a slow week, and AMD didn't slow down as much as Intel did. Yousuf Khan |
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On Wed, 5 May 2004 23:34:56 -0400, KR Williams wrote:
In article , says... On Tue, 4 May 2004 22:56:09 -0400, KR Williams wrote: In article cTVlc.52265$DrD1.17933 , news.20.bbbl67 says... Seems that for one week this past month, there were more AMD-based desktops sold than Intel-based. http://www.technewsworld.com/story/hardware/33636.html For the week ending April 24th, 52% of retail desktops were AMD, and only 47% were Intel. Minor, temporary victory? Absolutely. Just a victory in one geographical market, North America? Sure. Just represents retail sales only? Yup. Achieved in the middle of an overall bad quarter? Possibly. But has this situation ever arisen before, where AMD outsold Intel? I've never seen it, ever. Bums me out. The prices for AMD widgets has gone up, just when I'm about to dive in. *******s! ;-) Serioulsy, I've got the guts picked out, simply thinking about a case and a graphics card. Suggestions? Note that the case must support SuSE and dual monitors. ;-) Hmmm, I'm nearly ready to take the toe-dip(?) myself.:-) For a graphics card, nVidia has come a long way on the 2D and I'm still nervous about previous ATI "driver of the week" syndrome results. Well... Graphics cards look like a big bugaboo. Unless anyone can convince me otherwise, I think I'm going safe: Matrox G550. I'm really a 2D kinda guy anyway (and dual monitors are a must). Yeah I *think* Matrox still has the best 2D, though it's been a long while since I bought one - G200... probably still better than even current nVidia and ATI for 2D. BTW, my board of choice is the Tyan 2875S and a Opteron 144. I'd like to go more, but the CFO has already expanded the budget a few times. Going back for even more may get expensive. ;-). For a case, I never even bother to look beyond Antec now but choose carefully according to the power supply if included - the TruePower ones have a thermistor controlled fan in the P/S and special connectors for controlling the case fans off the same temp measurement. Ok... How about the SX1040BII: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...iption=11-129- 120&depa=0 (sorry for the split) In the office, I have a SX840 for a user system and SX1240 (6x5.25 external bays) for our server. Those are both older models and beige of course but I like them - the swing-out side panels are nice and cable routing is neat: I tie-wire the mbrd and rear fan wiring into the flanged bar across the upper half of the case and it makes for a clean interior. I dunno if the black SX models have as good a finish as the beige, which still has baked enamel, but I'd hope so. The 660AMGs we have are nice but that grey metallic finish is just regular paint and scratches more easily. With two standard rear exhaust fans you shouldn't need any extra fans - not sure if those case fans have individual thermistor control or not. The SmartPower P/S fan is temp controlled so it should not be noisy unless maybe you're "pounding" on it. On the SX models we have, you don't have to have those feet sticking out - if the standing surface is stable, you can swivel the feet in under the case. The Plus AMG cases seem to work fine in our office and I'm looking at that or the Lifestyle series Sonata for my home system. The Sonata didn't look all that interesting, though I'm willing to be convinced otherwise. I haven't tried it myself but others have made favorable comments. I'm also 99.44% sure I'm going with SuSE (they've even gotten smart and are packaging the 64b version along with the 32b package). Sounds like you're gonna have a lot of fun.:-) Rgds, George Macdonald "Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me?? |
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Serioulsy, I've got the guts picked out, simply thinking about a case and a graphics card. Suggestions? Note that the case must support SuSE and dual monitors. ;-) You mean someone not only makes cases that are OS-dependent but they also support dual monitor ;-) |
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KR Williams writes: Ok... How about the SX1040BII: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...iption=11-129- 120&depa=0 (sorry for the split) The Plus AMG cases seem to work fine in our office and I'm looking at that or the Lifestyle series Sonata for my home system. The Sonata didn't look all that interesting, though I'm willing to be convinced otherwise. I have both a 1040 and a Sonata sitting beside each other. The Sonata is *much* quieter. The rubber-grommet disk mounts are also a nice touch for disks that have noisy arms. (The quiet disks with a ramped voltage to the disk arm are getting hard to find. It appears that some company managed to patent the idea of not whacking the arm solenoid with a square wave.) (Asus k8v-se-d, 2Ghz Athlon64 3200, Matrox g550, Seagate Barracuda 80g, Sonata case, Openbsd) -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ |
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chrisv writes: KR Williams wrote: Well... Graphics cards look like a big bugaboo. Unless anyone can convince me otherwise, I think I'm going safe: Matrox G550. I'm really a 2D kinda guy anyway (and dual monitors are a must). That's what I've bought for my last couple office PC's. Just bought one a month ago for my latest. They are kind of annoyingly expensive for an "old tech" card, though... I'd have loved to have gotten a P650, but Matrox hasn't released the programming info for the card. The card worthless for open source OS's. For a company on the skids, you'd think Matrox would be doing a bit more to develop new markets. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ |
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KR Williams wrote:
In article , Bjorn- says... In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips David Schwartz wrote: I'd love suggestions on the graphics card and motherboard especially. Continue using Matrox cards, their 2D image quality is excellent. For motherboards, I've got good experience with Tyan Thunder K8W. If it's too expensive, a Tiger K8W would be cheaper (and mostly as good). Umm, come again? Did you mean K8W and K8WS? Please tell me the difference (other than the obvious). I might just pull the trigger tomorrow, certainly by Monday. Thunder K8W is the S2885. Tiger K8W is the S2875. The biggest differences are - S2885 has eight DIMM slots - 4 per cpu - while the S2875 has four DIMM slots, all on CPU0. - S2885 has 4 PCI-X slots, S2875 has none. - S2885 has dual Gb Ethernet, S2875 has one. |
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In article ,
says... Sounds like you're gonna have a lot of fun.:-) Yeah, I ordered all the bits yesterday. I have a week off at the end of the month. I figured I'd have some fun then, inbetween painting (Ugh!). -- Keith |
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