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Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

Big nope.

Trump is apparently slapping a 100% tariff on non US made (AMD=Taiwan
mostly) chips.

So it was probably kinda fucking stupid on AMD's part to chase
specific game optimizations to please benchmarks, meanwhile Intel
quietly released the Core Ultra which performs better in
*productivity* software. Short-term strategies like that never work
out.

Developers use *productivity* software like Visual Studio to CREATE
games. Which would you use if you were creating games? Re-train your
brain to imagine yourself higher on the food chain Spalls, as a
PRODUCER of games rather than a sheeple-for-the-peeple player of
games.

And the Developer to gamer ratio is?

Selling 5,000 units to Devs vs selling 1,000,000 to gamers, which is it
again that helps your bottom line? Especially the Bleeding Edge Gamers
who will only buy your most expensive product of every generation.

So most game developers have been buying Intel since the Core Ultra
series came out.

Seems unlikely that they will care how games run on lower cost chips >optimized for very specific game benchmarks (but lower performing in
real benchmarks) after the tariffs hit their mark.

The Gamer Market only cares about game performance, not how well it does spreadsheets or whatnot.

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From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

On Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:04:26 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Stuck on Intel/Nvidia like I am, I can't say I'm entirely thrilled
with this, of course, but I also recognize that the industry
desperately needs a shake-up. It needs the competition to make the
current leaders focus on developing products that people actually
want, and not just shitting out the next lame iteration of current-gen >technology. I'd still be hesitant to get an AMD video-card, but my
next PC? Unless AMD does something almost criminally stupid, it will
most likely rock an AMD CPU.

My latest build, Windows installed on April 1, 2025, is an AMD Ryzen 9
7900X. MSI X870 Gaming Plus Wifi mainboard. Went with an AIO liquid
cooler and 64GB of RAM, which is enough for anyone.

I've fallen in love with MSI's product.

The system has 12 cores split into two banks of 6 (each with their own L3 cache). Total of 24 logical cores. It runs between ~3Ghz and 5Ghz.

MAME compiles in about 15 minutes. Got it up to 88ºC today doing that.
All 24 logical cores engaged at 110% (over 5Ghz).

No complaints. After the Intel 14th gen mess, I wouldn't consider buying
an Intel processor.

https://is.gd/MZkgyM

(Sorry, the original link was insane. Promise it's not a Rick roll.)

I got a Fractal Design North XL case, complete with walnut louvers on the front. I could have gone with the normal size, tbh, but my hands aren't
as steady as they used to be.

I'm very happy with the new system. The old one got connected to the
living room TV where I entertain my cats playing Stray.
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