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Originally Posted by Noctis

What a friggin' b00n this guy is. Intel released their Itanium-II 64-bit chips at least a year ago. They haven't been put in PCs because there isn't software to justify them yet and they're waiting on a 64-bit Windows OS. But they've been in business machines for months. Athlon hasn't scooped anyone, they're still - and always will be - behind Intel in the speed race. Hope they keep up their "But hey we're cheap" campaign while their chips keep melting down.

(I smell a intel Fanboy).

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Opterons have been running as buisness solutions for the past 6 months. They literally rip the shit out of any xeon that tries to touch them. for the itaniums...........By the time release is set for home use AMD will be way farther ahead with the clawhammers (Athlon64). /AMD "was" at one time, the big dog over intel performance wise, but recently instead of wasting the funds and efforts to keep pumping out the fastest home use CPU they are instead looking at a budget market. Price vs Performance. as for your little Meltdown comment the new Barton cores run much cooler then the new 800fsb chips from intel. The heat was only an issue with the palamino core. I'm not saying go on ahead and buy AMD it all just depends on what you have and what you need. No need to be a fanboy and totaly excuse AMD from being in the picture at all. Both are Great. Both have their place. Period.