[ubuntu-uk] ECS AM3 GeForce 6100PM-M2 motherboard

[Liam Proven]

On 6 July 2010 16:44, Alan Lord (News) <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/07/10 16:25, Barry Drake wrote:
>> ECS AM3 GeForce 6100PM-M2
>
> Any reason you are specifically going for AMD?
>
> Just FYI, from what I've read over the past couple of years, currently
> you will still get more bang-per-pound-spent going with intel processors
> (ever since the "Core" architecture basically) and they use less power
> than comparable AMD chips too.

Concur. AMD has totally dropped the ball when it comes to either
price:performance or overall performance except at the very low end.
(E.g., the Sempron chips are quite good, way better than Atom for
desktop roles.)

> Although it should also be said, opinion in the press is that AMD may
> very well take back the mantle later this year/early next when AMD
> release a new hybrid processor range integrated with high performance
> ATi GPU (a SoC in reality), but this is a way off yet and early ones
> will undoubtedly be quite pricey.

They'll offer good graphics performance for low-end/low-cost systems,
but they won't rival an Intel system with discrete graphics. Still,
the heterogeneous multicore route is almost certainly the way things
will go in future.

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