Russian NVIDIA fanboy murders AMD fan: Nope, not Florida

In a bizarre chain of events, a Russian programmer "hacked" his friend with a knife after a disagreement about NVIDIA vs. AMD. The man murdered his friend with a kitchen knife by striking him twice on the head and then stabbed his friend another eleven times after he was already dead. He then burned the body in the attempt to cover the crime.

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Taking fanboi to new depths.

All my builds are AMD as well. I have used nvidia before and will again if it makes sense. Same for intel. Anticipating RyZen now and plan to build a gaming machine with my 13yo. It will be his first. He's helped dad before but this time I'm helping him.

AUDub said:

Computer components.

Among graphics processing unit (GPU) manufacturers, the two manufacturers that rule the roost are Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) with their Radeon line and Nvidia with their GeForce line. Each has dedicated following and a rivalry has developed.

Among central processing unit (CPU) manufacturers, the story is much the same, but it's AMD and Intel that rule the roost.

AMD plays second fiddle in both cases. They do some things pretty well (multithreading!) and are generally considered a better "bang for your buck" option if you're on a budget, but concerning CPUs they are probably a generation behind Intel. The gap is much narrower concerning GPUs, but Nvidia's top end cards do outperform AMD's.

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AMD suffered from both poor leadership and poor behavior from Intel. Lisa Su has seemingly righted the ship and has the company firing on all cylinders with both a new CPU (Ryzen) and a new GPU (Vega 10) set to hit the market this year. Both are expected to bring performance on par or above that of the competitors. Both will, no doubt, battle back. I'm just glad to see competition again.

AUDub said:

I hope it lives up to the hype. I'm skeptical since Bulldozer turned out to be such a disappointment. The benchmarks look promising.

I miss the days when AMD's Athlon was destroying anything Intel put out. It would be great for the market if AMD can get it in gear. If they can match the i7 at a far cheaper price, lookout. Be nice to get Intel off their duffs and innovating again.

Doesn't Intel still owe them a billion or so from that antitrust case?

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Pretty sure Intel has paid that in full.

Athlon. Athlon 64. Athlon 64 x2. Good times. Phenom wasn't bad but the dozer family was far worse than Pentium 4(in large part because AMD doesn't have the same clout as Intel to move the market and overestimated the move toward multithreading). They did do a great job with the apu's. My kid has been gaming with the same one for 4 years (and no, it won't run crysis ).

Jim Keller designed zen so there's plenty reason to have some faith in the hype right now. The buzz is there to indicate a hit, just like there was a buzz of disappointment around bulldozer despite a few fake benches. Keller designed or helped design Alpha, k7, and was lead arch for k8 and apple's A4/5 before leading the k12/zen project. He's just a beast in cpu design. I'm glad Su had the good sense to kill the k12 plans and go full zen because that would have been another misstep and would have killed amd as a company.

crimsonaudio said:

Yah, I built a few Athlon-based machines back in the day. In fact, the first DAW (digital audio workstation) I built for my new company in 2003 was an overclocked Athlon machine. It was incredibly fast.

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Built a few of those for folks back in the day. Athlon (pre-64) made for a hardy recording machine but if someone had the $$$ we'd spec out a dual pentium III. We used mostly CL Audigy and Terratec ( local bands). Seems like I remember M Audio and ST Audio having break out boxes and we might have built one or two of those. My buddy Jim was the guru with all that. I mainly just had to make sure we were making money on it. Learned a lot from him, though.