Anybody ever go to AMDZone?

[Arachnotronic]

It's like being warped into an alternate reality in which Bulldozer and Piledriver kick the snot out of Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge...

It was really creepy.

1) This isn't a technical thread. 2) Nothing good will come of this thread.
-ViRGE

 

[Red Hawk]

It's where all the important, non-biased benchmarks get post. Like comparing an overclocked 8350 to a stock 3770K in highly parallel Linux benchmarks and declaring AMD the victor. Because that sure matters to desktop users, and it's not like Intel doesn't have a whole other socket for such occasions.

(not that I'm downplaying Linux; I use Ubuntu in my laptop and it's fun to play around on. It just doesn't have a lot of utility for me, and just about any PC you buy will already have Windows on it. When it comes to highly parallel HPC tasks, the fact of the matter is you'll want a GPU rather than an x86 CPU to bear the brunt of the work.)

 

[Soleron]

I used to when JF was there. It was much less crazy than you'd think. People wanted AMD to succeed and would discuss any positive news about Bulldozer that might have existed, but all but a few posters would listen to logic and benches.

JF gave out a lot of accurate info and helped to keep discussion in the realm of the measurable. It's unfortunate he was given the wrong info by engineers as to IPC increasing, and also that he had an impossible job of selling inferior servers.

I left when it was clear AMD would never be able to compete again.

 

[Puppies04]

I heard that if you don't have an AMD cpu then you can't even access the site....

 

[Red Hawk]

Hmm? I can access the site just fine; I've never tried registering though.

 

[CHADBOGA]

It is a comedy Gold Mine. :biggrin:

 

[NTMBK]

From what I've heard, it's about as insane and biased as AlienBabelTech. I've stayed away.

 

[amenx]

Every once in a while I pop in there. Cant help it. Drawn to it with the same sort of perverse fascination I get from slowing down to observe a car wreck.

 

[Rvenger]

They deleted my account from February.

 

[Final8ty]

Never been there and the official AMD forum is not worth bothering about either.

 

[Idontcare]

Diversity is a good thing. AMDzone serves a need.

You can't compare forums like AMDzone, ABT, Anandtech, [H], XS, etc...they each serve a very different demographic. And those demographics get very different things from their visits to the various forums.

I liken AMDzone to the forum hangouts of sports fans wherein they will trash talk the competing teams despite the consistent losing streak of their own favorite sports team.

Been to any bars or pubs lately where you congregated with your fellow enthusiasts to down a pint or three whilst watching "CPU wars" on the tele?

Not at all, right? Such venues don't exist for our demographic.

But sports fans do, theirs is the larger demographic because that sort of human activity is far more common than the kind we indulge in (logging into a forum and discussing technical details and so forth).

AMDzone is for fans, no harm in that any more than there is harm in being a 49'ers fan. Folks of that demographic are going to congregate somewhere, and wherever that is you aren't going to mistake it as being a setting that is comparable to an ESPN discussion between players and coaches.

Fans have their hangouts, the pros have theirs, the academicians have theirs, etc. Each venue serves a purpose and a demographic, and it is all good.

 

[Leyawiin]

As Idontcare said, its basically an enthusiast site for AMD owners and fans. What do you expect, AMD trashing there?

 

[Soulkeeper]

a handfull of years ago amdzone.com and amdmb.com (now pcper.com) were very popular

I still check them every now and then to see if they have anything interesting going on.

 

[lifeblood]

It's like being warped into an alternate reality in which Bulldozer and Piledriver kick the snot out of Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge...

Their are actually scenarios where PD does kick the snot out of SB/IB, just not very many and they're very, very niche. Certain scientific apps on linux being an example.

Unfortunately so many Intel fans try to make it look like PD is the biggest pile of steaming crap with no use for anyone, ever. Look at this forum as an example.

Intel fans need to accept that PD does provide the biggest bang for some uses, AMD fans need to accept it's just not in games of things that most people care about.

 

[mikk]

No surprise. AMDzone is an AMD focused page like semiaccurate or planet3dnow.

 

[Maximilian]

Diversity is a good thing. AMDzone serves a need.

You can't compare forums like AMDzone, ABT, Anandtech, [H], XS, etc...they each serve a very different demographic. And those demographics get very different things from their visits to the various forums.

I liken AMDzone to the forum hangouts of sports fans wherein they will trash talk the competing teams despite the consistent losing streak of their own favorite sports team.

What demographics do the other forums serve? Where does anandtech forums fit in?

 

[MisterMac]

What demographics do the other forums serve? Where does anandtech forums fit in?

I often wonder this myself.

I would in no way consider myself a "massive AT forum goer" - but the high level of intelligence and logical deduction comparing to HardOCP, toms or amdzone always made me feel like AT is\was special in someway.

No doubt led on greatly by IDC and some of the other EE people .


While there are fanbois here - it's always at least in my view been kept to reasonable levels.


Atleast i feel like AT is the "scientific realist forum" - a tad snobby perhaps.
While most of us has colours and cheer for our team - i think most would be happy if SR would somehow come out with insane IPC and smack intel around.

We (As a whole of AT forum) have our sides - but would choose perf\value over colors anyday.

Same goes for GPU's for that matter

 

[Idontcare]

What demographics do the other forums serve? Where does anandtech forums fit in?

Well, for example, the XS crowd is much more interested in the suicide bench results, sPI screenshots and CPUz validation, than say the folks here who are more inclined to want to know the limits of 24x7 overclockability.

If I had to put us on a spectrum, I'd say the Anandtech forums are probably the least polarized of forums out there. We aren't extreme anything, we are sort of the epitome of mainstream in all things - be it cpus, ram, video cards.

We get a lot of folks looking for new build and general build advice. And even our touchy topics in CPU and GPU tend to break down to price/performance in ways that suggest the average enthusiast is weighing in on the conversation more so than the extreme e-peen dude.

Not too many LGA2011 extreme rigs around here, nor many tri/quad-SLI or xfire rigs. Not only is that kind of hardware investment in the minority, if anything it is kind of looked down upon around here as being complete overkill and not the wisest investment of one's purchasing dollars.

Each of the forums across the net offer something different, which is why they continue to exist. All fetishes are served, none are denied