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Hockeyboy:

Interesting that AMD had quad-core chips "on the horizon"...right now the latest news says that AMD has "taped out" - what we in the biz call it when the reticle plates have been made but no chips have actually been manufactured in quantity and sold - the design of a quad-core chip. They also have said numerous times that they are manufacturing 65nm dual-core chips but have shipped zero to date. 65nm chips consume less power, generate less heat while delivering the same (or better since there is no power loss) performance. Performance/watt is now the name of the game, not top-end speed.

Again, not trying to knock AMD in any way - all I'm saying is do some research and find out just what Intel has been doing in the last 3-6 months. I realize there are lots of people that are dedicated AMD fans and I truly respect and appreciate that -- all I ask is that Intel be given it's due and out of fairness, a closer look at what has been put on the table.

And, yes, I agree - all this discussion is reserved for desktop PCs and not MAME cabinet PCs - that would be a tremendous waste of horsepower and money.

Level42:

As mentioned, I'm a customer of both companies, but I sure do hope AMD will be able to always keep up with Intel. I don't want to imagine what will happen when there's only 1 source for CPU's.


Gambit:

I think we need both Intel and AMD.

If not for AMD, then Intel would not push hard to create new technologies and improve as fast.  If you know what I mean.

elvis:

I'm a huge AMD fanboi, but the new Intel Conroe (ie: the "Core Duo") chips have impressed me no end.

Take a look at some benchmarks I did:
http://benchmark.mameworld.net/

Conroe certainly is the platform of choice for MAME.

Oh, and for the record:

1) MAME will never benefit from dual-core, so there's no real need for it.  But even so, Conroe is still the fastest chip out there for MAME

2) DUAL = two of.  DUEL = a fight between two people.  "Duel Core" - two cores fighting?  :P


rdowdy95:

Guys think about it.  Hell AMD has been whooping Intel for the past 5 years as far as I am concerned.  AMD will be back on top in no time.

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