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**johnlohanmclee** · 06-02-2010, 12:21 AM

"My mate says..." is the bane of my fricken life. I swear, every guy who comes in here seems to have a "mate" who knows everything about computers. It's a struggle not to just say "Then why doesn't he fix it/build it for you then?"

A small selection of golden statements:

My mate says....

"AMD's are just cheap knock-offs of Intel CPU's"
"AMD CPU's will fit in Intel Boards"

Anyone care to add to the idiocy?

Well, if you go back to the 486 (and 386?) days, it was true. Since then - no way!
Except maybe for the Pentiums - I know there were Cyrix CPUs that fitted the Pentium socket but don't think there were any AMD ones that did as Intel had taken legal action against AMD - anyone clarify this?

06-02-2010, 12:21 AM	#5
johnlohanmclee Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 379 Senior Member	"My mate says..." is the bane of my fricken life. I swear, every guy who comes in here seems to have a "mate" who knows everything about computers. It's a struggle not to just say "Then why doesn't he fix it/build it for you then?" A small selection of golden statements: My mate says.... "AMD's are just cheap knock-offs of Intel CPU's" "AMD CPU's will fit in Intel Boards" Anyone care to add to the idiocy? Well, if you go back to the 486 (and 386?) days, it was true. Since then - no way! Except maybe for the Pentiums - I know there were Cyrix CPUs that fitted the Pentium socket but don't think there were any AMD ones that did as Intel had taken legal action against AMD - anyone clarify this?
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