*metatron: please don't say "peace" at the end of your statement because it's so gay. Just a friendly suggestion.

Anyway, all i know is, the E6600 ($200) can annihilate the AMD FX-62 ($800-1000) in most apps and benchmarks. Of course, i assume you're not one of those clowns who spend all their time and sorry asses benchmarking their computers. We use these in the real world for real apps that produce real work because we have lives. hehehehhe

But you are right, AMD should be thanked for what it did (copying Intel when the former had some of its procs manufactured by AMD) then later developing its own. Intel practically copied the AMD64 architecture but did it too late. Talk about twist of fate. Too many people got the AMD because of the 64-bit hype (not many even know that you need at least 4GB of ram to fully utilize 64-bit LOL!!!).

It sparked the processor war, prices plunged, I remember a classmate of mine was sooooo proud of his 486DX which he bought for 100K, right now, it can't be even sold for 1K hahahaha!). I thank God we can't afford a new computer back then. For a hundred grand, i was able to have THX 5.1 digital speaker for my setup (Logitech z5500).

Now, almost everyone has a computer. I thank AMD for that and all those poor fellas at IBM, Cyrix and Texas Instruments who did their best to stick their heads out of the water but eventually had to pull out or minimize production.

Unfortunately, Monopoly is still a big part of the IT business. Software developers favor Intel (probably because of monetary benefits which Intel is infamous for). Example: Adobe. You'll instantly notice the performance reduction on a similar platform AMD and Intel that's because Adobe "looks" for the intel processor. A few years ago, some nice guys from Sourceforge developed a registry hack to counter this and the Adobe indeed worked faster (i dont have a link, sorry).

Currently, it puzzles me why AMD with their revolutionary* on-die memory controller is reducing cache. In contrast, the E6600 and above are very fast because of these 4MB. It is predicted they will double to 8MB or 16MB after the 4x4 (Kentsfield Quadcore).




*Actually intel had an on-die prototype pre-P4 days but decided to bin it. Not sure why. AMD is first to market it and it indeed proved to be revolutionary.