Posts by lmotaku

AMD is a rounding error on Intel's spreadsheet and that sucks for us all

Re: What? The Duos sucked.

Hey, ever wonder happened 4 years later after a post? Well, figured I'd update this. About 3-4 years ago, I upgraded to an i7 4790k, through a deal. I also built a Ryzen 5, and 7 machine around the same time. The Ryzen 5 and 7 machines, performance wise, were less impressive than my i7. However, if it wasn't for the deal, I would never have given it a chance. Fast forward, with Ryzen prices going sky high and getting product being almost impossible during Covid, I built an i9 10900k system, because the CPU and board were in stock and very affordable prices. I couldn't be happier. The i9 I have just destroys in gaming FPS and the 20 core multi tasking is beautiful. For a price of $400 back before Christmas 2021, it made the most sense and I'm still happy. Seeing an all-core max of 5.8-5.9 Ghz, much higher than any Ryzen system I've seen out of the box, it just makes them frames delicious. Ryzen's importance to me has fallen off and I don't see a big reason to upgrade any time soon. Maybe if AMD has better stock and pricing to performance ratio in 4 years time.

Couldn't agree more. I've ran AMD Sempron, Athlon, Athlon x2, Phenom II, and FX, and will be going to Zen. I started out on Intel, for servers, for gaming, everything. I went PI, PII, PIII, PIV, then Duron and never looked back—even though I have given Intel Core Duo, Core 2 Duo, and gen1, gen2 i5s a go. One of my biggest issues with Intel was it couldn't handle my multitasking. I battered CPUs with hundreds of applications simultaneously and all my CPUs fried up until Core 2 Duo and i5, but with Core 2 Duo it would stall or crash and i5 would just slow down exponentially and take a long time to finish and come back. i7 is literally the only CPU that can handle my load, but the processors are $800-1000, where I just paid $250 for AMD FX 8350 in the beginning of it's life span and haven't had an issue, period. Same deal with Phenom II x6 1045T. I've used a 4 year old i5, and I'm telling you right now, it can't keep up to my usage 24/7. It can't handle me for a few minutes before it starts slowing down, although my friend claims that it never does that for him.

What? The Duos sucked.

The AMD Athlon x2 was much better at multi-tasking and doing video editing via Sony Vegas than an Intel Core 2 Duo was not even a blip on my radar, because the pc would crash. Pre-i5, everything Intel was selling would croak under my usage. Something AMD wouldn't.

First they came for Notepad. Now they're coming for Task Manager

You did know that David Plummer spent about as much time with it for XP and the famous disk partitioner, adding maybe a few draw tweaks here and there? The new UI looks barely different, putting the articles in the left pane into the ui above kinda makes sense. It's actually looking a lot more like Win Virtual machine manager UI now.

KISS is a typical old school programming element forgotten by modern devs. That's why Windows today sucks in so many ways. This design and taking a day to do means that it wasn't broken and didn't need much changing.