This guy is a smiling, thumb showing prick.

Supposedly, I read on a forum 5 minutes ago that Turion’s I are crap and overheat and that basically other AMD processors are better, for example Turious II’s.

Since I remember reading about headaches deskop computers have unless proper cooling is implemented, I am inclined to believe otherwise.

This is a ASUS AB50 laptop, with AMD and ATI HD 4370 graphics card. While the gaming experience is really great (the graphics card), this ***** comparing their solutions to intel’s GMA’s is just ridiculous.

There is no excuse for me having to bring this stupid laptop in for the second time in a one year warranty back into service center. Funny thing is they replaced the motherboard the first time around (and i just bought the laptop, maybe 2 months), but I suspected that the CPU had something to do with it because the laptop kept hanging like the CPU was overheating.

It did work fine, more or less, as I mentioned the gaming experience was great, but after 8 more months I am again forced to call on my warranty.

Now let’s compare this to my experience with a HP budget laptop – HP 550. A intel dual core cpu, much less power in it then my current CPU, and intel’s GMA graphics card. It coudn’t run many games properly, and probably stil woudn’t, but the ones that did, worked fine after I replaced the ugly hp graphics card drivers (outdated from 2007) with intel’s then latest drivers in 2009. The games started to run at least 100% better, to the point that where a lot of those games were more then playable at low settings.

Now that I wrote this last sentence, I have to add something about the great gaming experience on AMD-ATI machine. I have to run my mmo twich game on low settings because the cpu can’t handle it. I guess that isn’t much of an improvement from the HP laptop.

Except, the hp laptop idles at 50, and I can’t force the CPU and GPU over 75 no matter how hard a try. Compare it with this ticking timebomb I have right now that’s running at 83 and 75 respectably. Funny thing is, it would not move a Celsius degree from those values up until recently I suppose. Finally, this AMD cpu is showing sings of change idling at 97 and going into 100 or 101 on high workload.

Right now, the games hang after a while. I guess the CPU overheats much more now then 100 or 101, or the safety switch (that hangs the game) would not turn on.

Basicaly, to sum it up, I would always buy a more expensive, maybe even less powerfull Intel + Nvidia laptop then any of AMD’s hyped up suicide processors. And as people point out in the coments already, this is marketing hype.

I have one more thing to add to here though. This is the first time in my life that I see this particular “dropping” of polygons because of “bandwidth” problems. I am not an expert in 3D graphics, but as a programmer I know enough about how games are programed to know that the game would show absolutely the same, except that it would have a lower FPS (frames per second) rate. Basicaly, the game would NOT run at 30 frames a second, it would run at say 20 and it would or would not play slower, depending on the game implementation. Most serious games either use frame skipping (they run the simulation on the CPU for two ticks yet draw only one) or some other method to get over this problem. Flash games for example, mostly don’t and you can get a slower game with a less powerful or stressed out CPU (a ton of tabs in a browser).

Basically, my opinion is that this prick here is using a game bug or something similar to show of that his products are supposedly superior.