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AMD FX Comic Strip

Sat Jul 30, 2011 3:31 am

Guys, check this out.

http://sites.amd.com/us/promo/processor ... rpius.aspx

Not sure what to make of it. It's rather corny to me, but it could be a clue as to what FX will bring to the table.
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Re: AMD FX Comic Strip

Sat Jul 30, 2011 4:24 am

This comic is more focused towards trinity, they are talking about the Agent ruby joining their FX team. LOL, nice read though.
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Re: AMD FX Comic Strip

Sat Jul 30, 2011 5:55 am

Did you read this too after signing up for their contest? If so ....... Back off its mine! Just kidding, it is a bit corny though.
 
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Re: AMD FX Comic Strip

Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:56 am

That is pretty stupid.
 
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Re: AMD FX Comic Strip

Sun Jul 31, 2011 8:44 am

StuG : No, I didn't sign up. I don't live in the US and I believe it's only open to US folks. If you did enter the contest, good luck. :)

All : Thing is, I notice that AMD's been more focused on blogs and these silly comic strips lately. It's all fine and dandy if their CPU lineup is giving Intel tough competition. And by 'tough', I do mean TOUGH. But with the way things are, with Phenoms and Athlons lagging so far behind the performance curve, I kinda wanna tell them to just concentrate on trying to make their CPUs catch up rather than wasting resources with these silly marketing exercises. Or are the marketing guys simply just eager to do something while the engineers try to sort BD out?
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Re: AMD FX Comic Strip

Sun Jul 31, 2011 10:14 am

ronch wrote:
StuG : No, I didn't sign up. I don't live in the US and I believe it's only open to US folks. If you did enter the contest, good luck. :)

All : Thing is, I notice that AMD's been more focused on blogs and these silly comic strips lately. It's all fine and dandy if their CPU lineup is giving Intel tough competition. And by 'tough', I do mean TOUGH. But with the way things are, with Phenoms and Athlons lagging so far behind the performance curve, I kinda wanna tell them to just concentrate on trying to make their CPUs catch up rather than wasting resources with these silly marketing exercises. Or are the marketing guys simply just eager to do something while the engineers try to sort BD out?



Well, their marketing guys can do this stuff, or they can sit and do nothing. Regardless of what marketing does, its not going to help with the CPUs. Its not like they have 10 general purpose people that they have to divide between marketing/community interaction and engineering.
 
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Re: AMD FX Comic Strip

Sun Jul 31, 2011 1:10 pm

Yeah. I bet those marketing guys had their work cut out for them for the last 5 years or so, since Core 2 came out. Hehe.
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Re: AMD FX Comic Strip

Sun Jul 31, 2011 6:15 pm

Corrado wrote:
ronch wrote:
StuG : No, I didn't sign up. I don't live in the US and I believe it's only open to US folks. If you did enter the contest, good luck. :)

All : Thing is, I notice that AMD's been more focused on blogs and these silly comic strips lately. It's all fine and dandy if their CPU lineup is giving Intel tough competition. And by 'tough', I do mean TOUGH. But with the way things are, with Phenoms and Athlons lagging so far behind the performance curve, I kinda wanna tell them to just concentrate on trying to make their CPUs catch up rather than wasting resources with these silly marketing exercises. Or are the marketing guys simply just eager to do something while the engineers try to sort BD out?



Well, their marketing guys can do this stuff, or they can sit and do nothing. Regardless of what marketing does, its not going to help with the CPUs. Its not like they have 10 general purpose people that they have to divide between marketing/community interaction and engineering.


Agreed. It's not like this is a product one can buy that was designed by their chip designers.

Though if it was, it'd be hilarious in that sort of "Why did you do this" way.
 
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Re: AMD FX Comic Strip

Sun Jul 31, 2011 8:18 pm

As usual, a stupid waste of marketing dollars by AMD.
 
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Re: AMD FX Comic Strip

Sun Jul 31, 2011 11:14 pm

Do you via remember the Indian chess player they were using for a while as their spokesman. Such a bad marketing campaign.
 
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Re: AMD FX Comic Strip

Mon Aug 01, 2011 12:55 pm

StuG: No, I don't believe I've had the pleasure of seeing the fella. I suppose I'm lucky.
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Re: AMD FX Comic Strip

Sat Aug 06, 2011 2:45 pm

I just went to the related Bulldozer giveaway website and got this back when I put in my information:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'

[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_AMD_Operation_Scorpius_2011'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'AMD_Operation_Scorpius_2011'.

/productinfo/AMD_Scorpius_submit.asp, line 168

Way to inspire confidence.
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Re: AMD FX Comic Strip

Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:48 pm

It seems that someone at AMD marketing had the bright idea of trying to replicate Valve's TF2 comics' success.

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