How does AMD perform in 4-5 years?

[wereireland]

I was going through threads about intel v amd and i have decided to go with amd but I found a worrying quote from gorman saying that AMD will not work in a couple of years ( i think?) So what do you think?

AMD's only real issue is cores dropping off as the CPU ages.

 

[Rakk]

Yes the cores drop off quicker than the Intel ones, but only after 10+ years or so, so no need to worry

 

[wereireland]

What does 'cores drop off' mean?

 

[DeadEyeDuk]

Become less effective? Bit like when you played your Michael Jackson Bad album for the millionth time (no? Just me?)...the quality rather drops off a bit

 

[wereireland]

That would sort of explain why my AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ has slowed down to a snails pace even though its only 2 years old....... I would like a new one but cant afford =(

 

[JSG10]

It shouldn't have slowed down that much at all in only 2 years. I'd be looking at clearing your system out. Defrag and clear out temp files for a start and see what programs you are running, especially on start up that cause such a slow down.

 

[wereireland]

It shouldn't have slowed down that much at all in only 2 years. I'd be looking at clearing your system out. Defrag and clear out temp files for a start and see what programs you are running, especially on start up that cause such a slow down.

I have done all those things. I have cleaned and defragmented disks and the registry and i have tried things like tune up utility 2011 to speed up the computer but they didn't make any difference. I timed my reboot time and it was 200 seconds. How does that compare to your boot time speeds?

 

[JSG10]

Less than a minute

 

[stegor]

The most likely reason for dropoff is Windows clutter and/or hard drive clutter. If you re-format and re-install windows (I realise this is a bit drastic!) then you will probably find all is back up to speed. I've done this a couple of times on my 3yr old AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ running XP and was amazed at the difference. I'm getting a new PC with Windows 7 shortly so it will be interesting to see if it behaves the same.

 

[wereireland]

The most likely reason for dropoff is Windows clutter and/or hard drive clutter. If you re-format and re-install windows (I realise this is a bit drastic!) then you will probably find all is back up to speed. I've done this a couple of times on my 3yr old AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ running XP and was amazed at the difference. I'm getting a new PC with Windows 7 shortly so it will be interesting to see if it behaves the same.

How do you do both of those things? Im not very good with computers....

 

[vanthus]

You just boot from your OS disk & do a clean install,but you will have to reinstall drivers updates & programs.
You will lose all data as well so make a backup before you go ahead.

 

[wereireland]

You just boot from your OS disk & do a clean install,but you will have to reinstall drivers updates & programs.
You will lose all data as well so make a backup before you go ahead.

Sounds like a lot of work... especially since i don't have the OS disk or an external hard drive to put the backup on. lol